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hang
noun- a little bit UK, 1861
Used as a euphemism for “damn”; always in the negative. - Mike, you’re too damned big and tough to give a hang what people say. — Mickey Spillane, One Lonely Night, p. 15, 1951
- Shoot, my old man don’t give a hang whether I’m in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in the gutter. — S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, p. 78, 1967
- used as a euphemism for “hell” SOUTH AFRICA, 1960
- — Penny Silva, A Dictionary of South African English, 1996
- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 54, 1998
- a person who regularly spends time in one place, or around people and places that are in some way associated US
- He was never really a hang at the scene, you wouldn’t see him in the clubs. — David Anderle, quoted in Waiting For The Sun, p. 124, 1996
- a job US, 1950
- — Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang, p. 64, 1970
- — Hermese E. Roberts, The Third Ear, 1971
▶ get the hang of something
to learn how to do something US, 1847- I can drive pretty good [...] Got the hang of it when I was doing this job as a vanboy. — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 38, 1964
▶ give a hang; care a hang
to care, to be concerned – usually in a negative context UK, 1861- I don’t give a hang what he does / As long as he does what he likes! — Oscar Hammerstein, II, Soliloquy [Carousel], 1945
- [T]hey did not care a hang for the “socialist ministers”[.] — P. D. Uspenskii, In Search of the Miraculous, 1949
- I don’t give a hang about women[.] — Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider, p. 72, 1987
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