Hang Definition
- trick
- feel
- knack
- pendulousness
- pendulation
- pendency
- plan
- (colloq.) connection
- arrangement
- bent
- To be concerned or anxious:
I don't give a hang what you do.
- To delay:
- To be slow in firing, as a gun.
- To persevere despite difficulties; persist:
She hung in there despite pressure to resign.
- To give up; quit.
- To stay calm or relaxed.
Other Word Forms of Hang
Noun
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Hang
- give
- hang fire
- hang in there
- hang it up
- hang loose
- hang (one's) hat
- hang on to
- hang (someone) out to dry
- hang tough
- let it all hang out
- get the hang of
- hang a left (or right)
- hang around
- hang around with
- hang back
- hang fire
- hang five (or ten)
- hang in (there)
- hang it!
- hang it up
- hang loose
- hang on
- hang one on
- hang out
- hang over
- hang together
- hang tough
- hang up
- hang up on someone
- let it all hang out
- not care a hang about
Origin of Hang
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A fusion of Old English hōn (“to hang, be hanging”) [intrans.] and hangian (“to hang, cause to hang”) [trans.]; also probably influenced by Old Norse hengja (“suspend”) and hanga (“be suspended”); all from Proto-Germanic *hanhaną (compare Dutch hangen, German hängen), from Proto-Indo-European *keng- (“to waver, be in suspense”) (compare Gothic (hāhan), Hittite gang- (“to hang”), Sanskrit [script?] (sankate, “wavers”), Latin cunctari (“to delay”)) and Albanian çengë (“a hook”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English hongen from Old English hangian to be suspended and from hōn to hang konk- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From hang sangwich, Irish colloquial pronunciation of ham sandwich.
From Wiktionary
From Alemannic German Hang (“hand”)
From Wiktionary
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