hang out

Less serious than getting together or dating. Spending time with someone in the context of friendship or in the context of casually exploring whether you like someone as just a friend or maybe more than a friend.

I'm gonna hang out with my best friend this weekend. We should hang out some time.

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hang out

verb (informal)
to socialize with in public

Comes from the formal meaning of "hang out": to protrude or stick out. Hence, the use of "out" for public. Not to be confused with "hang with", which is an umbrella term that includes socializing publicly or privately.

Friend: "Dude, you never hang out with me anymore."
You: "Not true: even though I don't get out of my house much, I still socialize with you on Facebook, which can be seen by other people."
Friend: "Touché."

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hang out

anything from eating and sleeping to riding bikes and playing football

lets hangout.

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hang out

According to Aileen Ward's biography of John Keats (English poet (1795-1821), who took an interest in English slang of the day, "hanging out" connoted "stopping at a tavern," i.e. spending time drinking, which fully comports with the modern sense of the slang expression. This indicates that the phrase was current in London in 1816 at the latest!

"Hey, Keats, man: Byron and some of the other poetic dudes are planning to hang out at Jack Straws before we go to sup. Like to join us?"

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hang out

To have casual sex, usually implying with someone on the regular.

Is that what the kids are calling it these days? Hanging out?

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hang out

usually referred to chillen wit ones friends but also can be used as code in front of ones parents to mean "lets get messed up tonight"

hey.. u wanna "hang out" or just chill?

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hang out

Wow you people are so lonely that you want to know what it means to "hang out with somebody"? Man get a life.

Sup?

Nmu?

Same wanna hang out?

No
Well go fuck yourself

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