To hang out, verb (common).—To live; to reside. Also (subs.), a residence; a lodging; and (American university) a feast; an entertainment.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v. Hang out. The traps scavey where we hang out; the officers know where we live.
1836. Dickens, Pickwick, ch. xxx. 'I say, old boy, where do you hang out?' Mr. Pickwick replied that he was at present suspended at the George and Vulture.
1852. Bristed, Five Years in an English University, p. 80. The fourth of July I celebrated by a hang-out.
1871. City Press, 21 Jan. 'Curiosities of Street Literature.' He hangs out in Monmouth-court.
1892. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, p. 14. I should like to go in for blue blood, and 'ang out near the clubs and the parks.
To hang out a shingle, verb. phr. (American).—To start or carry on business.
1871. Public Opinion, Dec. Tom Stowell hung out his shingle as a lawyer at the Tombs, afterwards at Essex-market, and eventually in Brooklyn.
To hang one's latchpan, verb. phr. (common).—To be dejected; to pout. Fr., faire son aquilin.
To hang it out, verb. phr. (common).—To skulk; to mike (q.v.).
To hang up, verb. phr. (common).—1. To give credit; to score (or chalk) up: said of a reckoning. Also 'to put on the slate' or (American) on the ice (q.v.).
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v. Hang-it-up, speaking of the Reckoning at a Bowsing-Ken, when the Rogues are obliged, for want of Money, to run on Tick.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
2. (American).—To bear in mind; to remember.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Hang it up. Think of it, remember it.
3. (American).—To pawn, For synonyms, see Pop.
4. (thieves').—To rob with violence on the street; to hold up (q.v.). Fr., la faire au père François.
5. (common).—To be in extremis; to know not which way to turn for relief: e.g., A man hanging = one to whom any change must be for the better.
6. (colloquial).—To postpone; to leave undecided.
1887. Cornhill Magazine, June, p. 624. To hang up a bill is to pass it through one or more of its stages, and then to lay it aside, and defer its further consideration for a more or less indefinite period.
To hang on, verb. phr. (colloquial).—(1) To sponge; and (2) to pursue an individual or a design.
1601. Shakspeare, Henry VIII., iii., 2. Oh, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
To hang off, verb. phr. (printers').—To fight shy of.
To hang up one's fiddle, verb. phr. (American).—To retire; to desist. To hang up one's fiddle anywhere = To adapt oneself to circumstances.
To hang up one's hat, verb. phr. (common).—1. To die. For synonyms, see Aloft.
1854. Notes and Queries, Vol. X., p. 203. He has hung up his hat. This sentence, which is sometimes used in reference to persons deceased, etc.
1882. Punch, lxxxii., 185, c. 1.
2. (common)—To make oneself permanently at home.
