A favorite place for spending time; also : a place frequented for entertainment or for socializing
Every Friday, Geoff and his group of friends all met at their favorite hangout to talk and have a good time.
If a place is a hangout for a particular group of people, they spend a lot of time there because they can relax and meet other people there. By the time he was sixteen, Malcolm already knew most of London's teenage hangouts. = haunt. a place someone likes to go to often