to hang around

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

To loiter about. To 'hang around' a person, is to hang about him, to seek to be intimate with him.


Every time I come up from Louisiana, I found Jess hangin' round that gal, lookin' awful sweet, and a fellow couldn't go near her without raisin' his dander.--Robb, Squatter Life.

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