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How's it hanging?
Meaning
- A casual and slightly irreverent greeting. While it carries a cheeky double meaning, it is mostly used as a standard inquiry about how someone is doing.
Cheeky, masculine
Used in a sentence
- He walked into the gym and shouted to his friend, how's it hanging?
- After a long week, she asked her coworker, how's it hanging?
- The old friends met at the bar, and one asked the other, how's it hanging?
The backstory
This surfaced in the 1960s as slang. It is likely a play on physical anatomy, but most people use it without thinking about the literal implication.
Heard in
Nationwide
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