hangout

[ hang-out ]

noun

, Informal.

1. a place where people gather for casual socializing or recreation:

   The pub is an ultracasual hangout, mostly frequented by undergraduates from the local university.

2. a place that a person frequently visits, especially for socializing or recreation:

   The record store was one of my favorite neighborhood hangouts when I was a kid.

verb phrase

1. to lean or be suspended through an opening:

   If you hang out the window that far, you're likely to fall right out!

2. to suspend in open view; display:

   Her family hangs out the flag every day, not just on holidays.

3. Informal. to frequent a particular place, especially in one's free time:

   We’ve all got friends who would rather hang out at a bookstore with a glass of wine than go clubbing.

4. Informal. to linger or loiter somewhere:

   We’ve got nothing better to do, so we’ll probably just hang out.

5. Informal. to spend time with someone:

   I’d love the chance to hang out with some like-minded folks.

6. Informal. to wait, especially briefly:

   Hang out a minute while I get my backpack.

7. Slang. to calm down:

   Hang out, Mom, I'm OK.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hangout¹

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55; noun use of verb phrase hang out

Example Sentences

Together with other risk-mitigation strategies, they simply make some lower risk hangouts possible.

From Quartz

Last Friday, John Mueller of Google said in a webmaster hangout video that if your site was negatively impacted by a Google core algorithm update, that you do not need to wait for the next time Google pushes out a core update to recover.

From Search Engine Land

Just south of downtown is the urban hipster hangout, Fountain Square.

From Washington Blade

There is always something going on at this neighborhood hangout.

From Washington Blade

Even John Mueller discussed this issue in one of his hangout videos and suggested to deindex thin content.

From Search Engine Watch

In Israel, the hippie-hangout of Akhziv Land added its claim to independence to the already-contentious land of Israel.

From The Daily Beast

It also takes place near a minefield of rocks, is a hangout spot for sharks, and breaks on a reef.

From The Daily Beast

“We are aware we do not have capacity within Nigeria to rescue the girls,” she said in the Google Hangout.

From The Daily Beast

They often went to Coney Island, where their usual hangout was Bay 4.

From The Daily Beast

Ali and his friends used to spend hours at the Somali hangout.

From The Daily Beast

Ward Three was the hangout of a cheap gang of hoodlums, numbering some four hundred, who went in for small crimes mostly.

From Project Gutenberg

If their spies had identified his former hangout, they'd never expect to have him set up research nearby.

From Project Gutenberg

He felt that revealing the general area of his hangout was not giving away too much of his secret.

From Project Gutenberg

They saw that it was a hangout that had been used for some time.

From Project Gutenberg

It certainly looks as if Santa Cruz is the smugglers hangout.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• haunt
• watering hole