hangout

It specifies hangout experiences as games where "the primary theme or purpose" is to allow people to communicate with each other as themselves, rather than role-playing as a character.

So she gets dressed — “you can’t just be walking around here in an old funky T-shirt,” she tells herself — and heads to an unusual hangout tucked into a Sunset Boulevard office building.

In the morning Omura picked up client Karen Ford at her hangout at a mini-mall and drove her to an SRO in Wilmington.

That’s when he met fellow musicians at the legendary Hollywood music shop Stein on Vine, where he hosted a jazz workshop he called the Harmony Club, for the New York musician hangout where he’d been a janitor.

Which is to say, “Shrinking” has settled into the salving vibe of a hangout comedy, what with Jimmy’s workplace and neighborhood families of choice comfortably overlapping without sacrificing the therapeutic spaces that make it distinct.