Hanging Out

hang out

Less serious than getting together or dating. Spending time with someone in the context of friendship or in the context of casually exploring whether you like someone as just a friend or maybe more than a friend.

I'm gonna hang out with my best friend this weekend. We should hang out some time.

I learned English through talking, playing and copying people around me. I was in elementary school starting grade 5. So at this age, we began to "hang out" at the mall without mother tagging along everywhere.

Hanging out perhaps was one of the phrase that did not really make sense to me at first. How is it possible for word hang to mean getting together with friends.  It is one of the phrase that you will hear when you begin making friends who speak English. Let's get together, let's meet up, let's hang out all means the same thing.