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hang

UK/hæŋ/ US/hæŋ/ very common informal slang
verb (15) noun (3)

verb

1.

be suspended or hanging

  • “The flag hung on the wall”
2.

cause to be hanging or suspended

  • “Hang that picture on the wall”
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3.

kill by hanging

  • “The murdered was hanged on Friday”
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4.

let drop or droop

  • “Hang one”
5.

fall or flow in a certain way

  • “This dress hangs well”
  • “Her long black hair flowed down her back”
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6.

be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive

  • “This worry hangs on my mind”
  • “The cloud of suspicion hangs over her”
7.

give heed (to)

  • “The children in the audience attended the recital quietly”
  • “She hung on his every word”
  • “They attended to everything he said”
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8.

be suspended or poised

  • “Heavy fog hung over the valley”
9.

hold on tightly or tenaciously

  • “hang on to your father”
  • “;”
  • “s apron”
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10.

be exhibited

  • “Picasso hangs in this new wing of the museum”
11.

prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury

12.

decorate or furnish with something suspended

  • “Hang wallpaper”
13.

be placed in position as by a hinge

  • “This cabinet door doesn”
14.

place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction

  • “hang a door”
15.

of meat, in order to get a gamey taste

  • “hang the venison for a few days”

noun

1.

a special way of doing something

  • “he had a bent for it”
  • “he had a special knack for getting into trouble”
  • “he couldn”
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2.

the way a garment hangs

  • “he adjusted the hang of his coat”
3.

a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast''s weight is supported by the arms

Origin

From Middle English hangen, hongen, from a fusion of Old English hōn (“to hang, be hanging”, transitive verb) and hangian (“to hang, cause to hang”, intransitive verb), respectively from the transitive verb Proto-West Germanic *hą̄han and the intransitive verb *hangēn; also probably influenced by Old Norse hengja (“to suspend”) and hanga (“to be suspended”); all from Proto-Germanic *hanhaną and *hangāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱenk- (“to waver, be in suspense”). See also Dutch hangen, Low German hangen and hängen, German hängen, Norwegian Bokmål henge, Norwegian Nynorsk henga; also Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 (hāhan), Hittite 𒂵𒀀𒀭𒂵 (/⁠kānk-⁠/, “to hang”), Sanskrit शङ्कते (śáṅkate, “is in doubt, hesitates”), Latin cūnctārī (“to delay”).

Phrases

  • bear hang
  • dead hang
  • get the hang of
  • give a dog a bad name and hang him
  • give a hang
  • give someone enough rope and they'll hang themself
  • go hang
  • hang a Larry
  • hang a left
  • hang a leg
  • hang a Louie
  • hang about

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