hang\ together

hang\ together
v
1. To stay united; help and defend one another.

The club members always hung together when one of them was in trouble.

Syn.: stick together
Compare: stand by, stand up for
2. informal To form a satisfactory whole; fit together.

Jack's story of why he was absent from school seems to hang together.


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