From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhang around/round (something) phrasal verb informalWAITto wait or spend time somewhere, doing nothing I hung around the station for an hour but he never came. → hang→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
hang around/round • As he left, the crowd broke up, and I heard rumblings of disappointment about having to hang around.• Ponzo kept hanging around; he had no place to sleep.• What kind of farmers would be hanging around in their hut on a hot afternoon like this?• So the neurotransmitter can hang around longer.• Don't hang around school waiting for me ever again.• Two days he was hanging around the place.• Whatever it was looking for, we didn't hang around to find out. 