Green’s Dictionary of Slang

hang v.4

1. (US) to behave, usu. in combs., e.g. hang loose v.; hang tough v.

[US]W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum XXI n.p.: I went to hang smile in front of me, But weeps were in my glimmers when I tried.
[UK](con. 1940s) D. MacCuish Do Not Go Gentle (1962) 210: Hang easy, buddy.
[US]C. Hiaasen Skin Tight 14: You want me to hang close today?
[US](con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 43: I saw the way you was hanging; and I got to know you better.

2. to endure, to suffer, to handle pressure.

[US]J.W. Dean III Blind Ambition 240: My man is not going to hang out here alone. You owe him that.
[US]Eble Campus Sl. Spring 3: hang – to last, to keep going, especially when drinking, smoking marijuana, or partying hard: He can’t hang.
[US]R.C. Cruz Straight Outta Compton 65: ‘How you been, Dopehead?’ [...] ‘I’m hangin’’.
[US]B. Coleman Check the Technique 464: ‘I play [chess], but I’m not as obsessed as RZA and GZA. They'll go twenty games straight, but I can’t hang like that’.

3. to leave someone waiting.

[US]C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 129: He let me hang for a couple of minutes; then he said, ‘That’s Maurice James’.

In phrases

hang loose

see separate entries.

hang tight (v.)

(US) to sit, to wait, esp. under pressure.

[Aus]Sport (Adelaide) 6 Sept. 10/4: They Say [...] That Cel H [...] kidded herself with her new boy at the football last Saturday. Hang tight, he’s a nice boy, Celia.
[US]W.D. Overholser Buckaroo’s Code (1948) 13: If you want to hang tight and get a dose of hot lead, it’s your business.
[US]T. O’Brien Going After Cacciato (1980) 70: Hang tight and we’ll have you out of here, pronto.
[US]T. Wolff ‘Soldier’s Joy’ in Back in the World 110: He said that Porchoff was [...] threatening to shoot Trac if Trac tried to stop him. [...] ‘Just hang tight,’ Hooper told him.
[Can](con. 1920s) O.D. Brooks Legs 126: Hang tight, here they come with a fist full of soft.
[US]N. McCall Makes Me Wanna Holler (1995) 189: He’d warned me to hang tight with my homies to keep hassles away.
J. Duckworth Power to the People 79: ‘Hang tight.’ ‘I’m hanging. . . don’t know how tight but I’m hanging.’.
hang tough

see separate entries.

hang with (v.)

1. (US) to associate with, to spend time with.

[US]E. Caldwell Tobacco Road (1958) 27: Lov’s wanting to hang up with Ellie May.
[US]‘Hal Ellson’ Golden Spike 144: I can hang with anyone, no matter what they do, but that doesn’t make me the same as them.
[US]N. Heard Howard Street 100: He’d known that Jimmy was hanging with a gang.
[US]S. King Stand (1990) 251: Vince had been one of them, [...] someone they hung with.
[US](con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 4: There was only two black guys in my platoon [...] So I hung with the Mexicans.
[US] Dr Dre ‘Bitches Ain’t Shit’ 🎵 But she was hangin’ with a white bitch doin’ the shit she do.
[Aus]P. Doyle (con. late 1950s) Amaze Your Friends (2019) 10: ‘Why don’t you hang with us? We’re going to get all messed up’.
[US]K. Bruen ‘Fade To . . . Brooklyn’ in Brooklyn Noir 309: I got to hang with them as I had a rep for armed robbery.
[UK]J.J. Connolly Viva La Madness 18: It was good to hang with Mort in the Caribbean.
Star (Jamaica) 1 Sept. 🌐 Your boyfriend gave you a key which meant yu could ‘show up’ [...] without announcing your intention to come and hang with him.
[Aus]A. Nette Orphan Road 73: ‘You going to have to drop that shit [i.e. nitrous oxide], mate, you want to hang with me’.
[UK]J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 300: [P]eople you’d enjoy to hang with.

2. (US) to handle a situation, to endure.

[US]Eble Campus Sl. Nov. 3: hang – to be able to cope with a situation: I can’t hang with partying all night.
[US]Eble Campus Sl. Fall 3: hang – make it, endure, put up with, settle for.
[US]T. Jones Pugilist at Rest 219: ‘I can hang with anybody.’ ‘You can hang with the big guy?’ ‘I can hang with anybody!’.
D.H. Edwards The World Don’t Owe Me Nothing 192: I had to buy him wine all the time till finally I said, ‘Man, I just can’t hang with this. I ain't got the money’.
how does that hang?

(US black) what do you think?

Queens View Affair Bk II Act VII 🌐 Perhaps Alice could be an acrobat, and Clint a strongman act, Chastity a Clown and the Colonel could do the human cannon ball? How does that hang with everybody?

In exclamations