verb
- Be about.
- usage: "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department"
- synonyms: loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around
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