Usually means: Remain behind, delay moving forward.
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  1. hang back: Merriam-Webster
  2. hang back: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hang back: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hang back: Vocabulary.com
  5. hang back: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hang back: Wiktionary
  7. hang back: Dictionary.com
  8. hang back: Rhymezone
  9. Hang Back: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. hang back: FreeDictionary.org
  11. hang back: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. hang back: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. hang back: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. hang back: Encyclopedia

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  1. hang back: Idioms

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  1. hang back: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hang back)

▸ verb:  (informal) To wait; to falter; to avoid proceeding through reluctance.

Similar:
drop behind, trail, get behind, drag, hang a leg, halt, hold up, hang about, hover, hesitate, more...

Opposite:
move forward, advance, progress, push forward, forge ahead

Phrases:
to hang back, more...

Adjectives:
hold, stay, tarry, stick, pocket

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Similar:
drop behind, trail, get behind, drag, hang a leg, halt, hold up, hang about, hover, hesitate, more...

Opposite:
move forward, advance, progress, push forward, forge ahead

Phrases:
to hang back, more...

Adjectives:
hold, stay, tarry, stick, pocket



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