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Hi I would like to know if the meaning of hang around is be about in this sentence and if it means that the person stays near the town doesn´t really live there ?
"I will be teaching this summer (July) and attending workshops in June. So I will be hanging around Boone most of the summer and starting my next project."
In America, we rarely use "about" to mean "in the vicinity." So, if one is hanging around Boone (which is a beautiful town here in the mountains of North Carolina) then, one will "be about."
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