(chiefly US, idiomatic) To reside; to call a place home. / (by extension) To identify with; to be.

(transitive) To accept or recognize as reliable, tangible, or factual; to depend on.

simple past tense and past participle of leave someone hanging

present participle of leave someone hanging

To leave someone waiting in anticipation of one's response.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of leave someone hanging

plural of hang-loose sign

A paradox about a person's expectations about the timing of a future event which they are told will occur at an unexpected time. It is based on the idea that a prisoner, told that he will be hanged on a day unknown to him, concludes that "I cannot be hanged on Friday because if I haven't been hanged by the end of Thursday then it would no longer be a surprise", and so on backwards through the week.

To be sullen or sulky.

(informal, sports) To retire from or stop playing a field sport.