hang
hang
- n a special way of doing something
he couldn't get the hang of it - n the way a garment hangs
he adjusted the hang of his coat - n a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms
- v be suspended or hanging
- v cause to be hanging or suspended
- v kill by hanging
The murderer was hanged on Friday - v let drop or droop
- v fall or flow in a certain way
This dress hangs well - v be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive
This worry hangs on my mind
The cloud of suspicion hangs over her - v give heed (to)
- v be suspended or poised
- v hold on tightly or tenaciously
hang on to your father's hands - v be exhibited
Picasso hangs in this new wing of the museum - v prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury
- v decorate or furnish with something suspended
- v be placed in position as by a hinge
This cabinet door doesn't hang right! - v place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction
hang a door - v suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste
hang the venison for a few days
- But whenever Chino gets out of jail from his latest weapons-possession charge, he will still have nowhere to go but the gang neighborhood, nobody to hang with but his homeboys .
- The two new laws are now being implemented, and their backers hope they will mitigate the state's hang-'em-high image.
- First, though, he would be imprisoned by his fellow adventurers, sentenced twice to hang, and spared from ritual Algonquian execution by an enchanting woodlands princess whose .