hang back

verb

Definitions

  1. To wait

    To wait; to falter; to avoid proceeding through reluctance.

    • From this one poor hunt, then, the best lance out of all Nantucket, surely he will not hang back, when every foremast-hand has clutched a whetstone?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hang back. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA