be around
verb- I'll be around for another hour or so.
- This restaurant has been around since 1938.
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- The article said that dinos were around for about 250 million years.
- Well, sir, you remember this young Georgie sort of disappeared, after his grandfather's death, and nobody seemed to know much what had become of him—though I did hear, once or twice, that he was still around somewhere.1918, Booth Tarkington, chapter 34, in The Magnificent Ambersons:
- The New York-style hot dog I love has been around for well over a hundred years.2005 May 25, Ed Levine, “It's All in How the Dog Is Served”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Jan 2009:
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Idiomatic To be near; to socialize with.
- You're fun to be around.
- Related terms
- have been around