hang

B1 · Intermediate Informal

v. to spend time relaxing or doing nothing in particular, usually with friends.

v. to loiter or spend time idly in a specific location or with specific people. Often used as the phrasal verb 'hang out'.

“We used to hang at the mall every Saturday when we were teenagers.”

“The local teenagers tend to hang around the fountain after school, though they rarely cause any actual trouble.”

B2 · Upper Intermediate Computing Technical

v. when a computer or a program stops working and does not respond to your mouse or keyboard.

v. to cease responding to user input or system interrupts. Can be used transitively to describe a process that causes the system to freeze.

“My laptop started to hang every time I opened more than three tabs.”

“The application would frequently hang during the data export process, forcing users to restart the entire workstation.”

B2 · Upper Intermediate Uncountable noun Informal

n. the ability to understand or do something that was difficult at first.

n. the precise manner of doing, using, or dealing with something; almost exclusively used in the idiom 'get the hang of'.

“Driving a manual car is tricky, but you will get the hang of it soon.”

“Once the new recruits get the hang of the filing system, the office should run much more efficiently.”