Difference between Hang Around and Loiter

HANG AROUND vs LOITER: VERB

Be about
To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly; to linger; to hang around.

To stand idly about; linger without any purpose.
To violate a law or ordinance that prohibits persons from remaining in a given location without a clear purpose for an extended period of time, especially when behaving in a manner indicating a possible threat to persons or property in the vicinity.
To hover over or remain near an area.
To act slowly or with leisure; take one's time.
To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
To wander as an idle vagrant.
To proceed slowly or with many stops.

Be about a place without any apparent purpose
To consume or waste, as time, idly or carelessly: used with away: as, he loitered away most of his leisure.
Synonyms To lag, tarry, saunter, dilly-dally.
To linger; be unduly slow in moving; delay; be dilatory; spend time idly.

Bum around, Loiteringly, Hang about, Mill around, Mill about, Mess about, Lallygag, Footle, Loaf, Lounge, Tarry, Lurk, Loiter, Linger, Lollygag

Congregate, Wander, Lag, Mess about, Hang around, Lallygag, Mill about, Footle, Mill around, Loaf, Lounge, Tarry, Lollygag, Linger, Lurk

Bum around, Loiteringly, Hang about, Mill around, Mill about, Mess about, Lallygag, Footle, Loaf, Lounge, Tarry, Lurk, Loiter, Linger, Lollygag

Congregate, Wander, Lag, Mill around, Mill about, Mess about, Lallygag, Hang around, Footle, Loaf, Lounge, Tarry, Lollygag, Linger, Lurk

Fellows who hang around the man nobody noes.
It likes to hang around for a while.
LOVE doing these to hang around our classroom.
He had let me hang around his family.
Every Keralites all around the globe welcomes Vishu with celebrations along with Easter, as the dates hang around like intimate friends.
Just gather a few cozy chairs, pass around the throw blankets, and your neighbors will be set to hang around all night long.
Direct mail can hang around for a while and often gets passed around the office or the household.
If you need constant reminders of liberal hypocrisy, just hang around, as there will be another one right around the corner.
Jones: But they pretty much hang out, hang around together?
Locals hang around on their boat docks whilst guests hang around in lake entrance parks to take in the boat parade.

The Lower school students won't have time to loiter around town all day.
Students will not be permitted to loiter in the hallways after school hours.
Students are not to sit in or loiter around the vehicles.
Students may not loiter in hallways, stairways, the cafeteria, or restrooms.
EVER AT LCI AND ANY OTHER FORUM THAT YOU LOITER, STALK.
Do not loiter outside the building, especially after dark.
Begin loiter at the specified Latitude and Longitude.
Foreigners loiter outside Anchorvale CC to watch g..
Students should not loiter in the parking lot.
Loiter, or be permitted to loiter, in or about any roomwherein any gambling game is operated or conducted.