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hung one's hat

hung one's hat is the simple past and past participle of hang one's hat.

Meaning of hang one's hat

Verb

hang one's hat (third-person singular simple present hangs one's hat, present participle hanging one's hat, simple past and past participle hung one's hat)

  1. (US, idiomatic) To reside; to call a place home.
    • But all my ex’s live in Texas
      And that’s why I hang my hat in Tennessee1987 April, Sanger and Linda Shafer (authors), George Strait (singer), “All My Ex’s Live in Texas”, MCA Records
  2. (broadly) To identify with; to be.
    • I try not to make simplistic judgements on people these days. Especially over matters as trivial as where they hang their sexual hat.2009, Michael Marshall, Bad Things, →ISBN, page 252

Questions about hung one's hat

What is hung one's hat the simple past and past participle of?
Hung one's hat is the simple past and past participle of hang one's hat.

Words near hung one's hat in the dictionary

  1. hung off
  2. hung on
  3. hung on by a thread
  4. hung on every word
  5. hung one on
  6. hung one's hat
  7. hung one's hat on
  8. hung one's head
  9. hung one's lip
  10. hung onto
  11. hung out

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