traîner dans les rues

French - English

Definition of traîner dans les rues in French English dictionary

hang about

to spend time or be friends (especially to hang about with someone)

My daughter likes to hang about with older kids after school.

to stay, linger or loiter

Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.

linger, pass time, loiter; spend time with

Hyphenation

train·er dans les rues