hang around

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of HANG AROUND

to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time <if you hang around until my husband gets home, you can meet him>

Synonyms abide, dwell, hang around, remain, stick around, tarry

Related Words await, hang on, hold on, wait; dally, dawdle, linger, loiter; outstay, overstay

Near Antonyms abscond, book [slang], decamp, escape, evacuate, flee, fly, get out, run away, scat, scram, skip; abandon, desert, forsake, vacate

Antonyms bail, bail out, bug out, buzz (off), clear off [chiefly British], clear out, cut out, depart, exit, get off, go, go off, leave, move, pack (up or off), peel off, pike (out or off), pull out, push off, push on, quit, shove (off), take off, vamoose, walk out

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