Definition of "hang"

hang¹

/hæŋ/

verb
third-person singular simple present hangs, present participle hanging, simple past and past participle hung or (legal) hanged
1. (intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
  Quotations
  On the dark-green walls hung a series of eight engravings, portraits of early Victorian belles, clad in lace and tarletan ball dresses, clipped from an old Book of Beauty. Mrs. Bunting was very fond of these pictures; she thought they gave the drawing-room a note of elegance and refinement.
  1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], page 0111
2. (intransitive) To float, as if suspended.
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  It was a couple of days after the crash, with the smell of burning still hanging in the air from the incinerated wreckage of Coach H, where 31 passengers lost their lives, when I visited the West London site.
  2023 September 20, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: And it's goodbye from me...”, in RAIL, number 992, page 3
3. (intransitive) To veer in one direction.
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  The jockey claimed that the horse hung towards the outside
  1979, New South Wales law reports, page 16
4. (intransitive, of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
5. (transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
6. (transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
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  It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Luke 17:1-2
7. (transitive, law) To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
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  '[...] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—'
  1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess‎
  As things go from bad to worse for Putin in his maniacal, murderous attack on Ukraine, he could end up like Milosevic, or worse. The court could change its rules and hang him, the way the Allies hanged Nazi war criminals at the end of World War II.
  2022 March 10, Peter Lucas, “Lucas: Putin has blood on his hands and The Hague must make him pay”, in Boston Herald‎, archived from the original on 6 August 2022
8. (intransitive, law) To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
9. (transitive, informal) (used in maledictions) To damn.
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  [H]e suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said "Bother!" and "Oh blow!" and also "Hang spring-cleaning!" and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat.
  1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 11
10. (intransitive, informal) To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
  Quotations
  He banned spearfishing wherever he could, started the first eco-moorings in the Caribbean, stopped others from coral- and shell-collecting, and had so much fun 24/7 that some unusually powerful people began to hang with him.
  2006, Scuba Diving, numbers 1-6, page 49
11. (transitive) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
12. (transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
13. (transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
14. (intransitive, figuratively) To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
  Quotations
  Exploring, I found another short gallery running transversely to the first. This appeared to be devoted to minerals, and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder. But I could find no saltpeter; indeed no nitrates of any kind. Doubtless they had deliquesced ages ago. Yet the sulphur hung in my mind and set up a train of thinking.
  1895 May 7, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine: An Invention, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company
15. (transitive) To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
16. (intransitive, computing) To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
17. (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
18. (transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
19. (intransitive, chess) To be vulnerable to capture.
20. (transitive, baseball, slang, of a pitcher) To throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
  Quotations
  McDougald then singled, and with a 3-2 count on Ellie Howard who was playing first base, Spahn hung a curve ball and Howard hit it over the wire fence in left field for a 4-4 tie.
  2010, Peter Golenbock, Dynasty: The New York Yankees, 1949-1964, page 409
21. (transitive, figurative) To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).
  Quotations
  There were no whisperings, even from his opponents, that he was no better than he ought to be. Because, there was nothing wrong on which to hang a charge. As an eloquent orator, he carried with him the firm support of a good name.
  1848, The American Pulpit, volume 3, page 120
  Papa had wanted to call me Beverly Mary; Mary after the Blessed Virgin. Mama said she wouldn't hang a name like Beverly Mary on a pet skunk.
  1989, Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, Penguin, published 1989, page 2
noun
plural hangs
1. The way in which something hangs.
2. A mass of hanging material.
  Quotations
  They advanced in a crouch, dropping to their knees every few yards to pass under a hang of rock.
  2014, Matthew Jobin, The Nethergrim, volume 1
  “I don't see the hang of so much talky-talky,” broke in Uncle Sam. “We've heard all that can be said about things, […]
  1911, Alexander MacDonald, The Invisible Island: A Story of the Far North of Queensland, page 105
3. A slackening of motion.
4. A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
5. (computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input.
6. (informal, figuratively) A grip, understanding.
7. (colloquial)
  1. The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
  2. A hangout.
    Quotations
    My first day was a fun hang, but I didn't really do too much. Me and stupid Bob just hung around the casino looking at box and losing money.
    2008, Jim Norton, Happy Endings, Gallery Books, page 25
    So how can you set up a hang within a 90-minute time-frame for yourself? Be clear with your friends about timing from the get-go, so they, too, can decide if it's worth their time to even meet up.
    2021 April 14, Jen Kirsch, “A Good Hang Lasts No More Than 90 Minutes”, in InStyle‎
    He invited us over to his beautiful heritage home in downtown Toronto for a hang.
    2021 October 27, Danielle McTaggart (quoted), Chelsea Brimstin, “Dear Rouge share sentimental video for delicate new single 'Life Goes By And I Can’t Keep Up'”, in Indie88‎
  3. A person that someone hangs out with.
    Quotations
    She might announce something to everyone that makes no sense or tells a story that rambles on and on and makes no point. But for some reason nobody seems to mind. We all just like to listen to The Airhead. She's a fun hang.
    2004, Relient K, Mark Nichols, The Complex Infrastructure Known as the Female Mind, Thomas Nelson, page 76
    "I couldn't sit down and play a concert for you or really wow you on any instrument," Mr. Blanco said, estimating that "like 75 percent" of his success comes from being a good hang. "What I can do is meet an artist, know what type of song I think we should make and be their therapist, make everyone feel comfortable."
    2018 July 18, Joe Coscarelli, “How Benny Blanco Became the Most Popular Oddball in Pop Music”, in New York Times‎
    And maaaaaaaybe Superman would be a good hang, though I suspect that'd be a lot like hanging out with a youth pastor.
    2019, Shea Serrano, Arturo Torres, Movies (And Other Things), Grand Central Publishing

hang²

/hæŋ/

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1. (Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.

hang³

/hæŋ/

noun
1. Alternative spelling of Hang (“musical instrument”)

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