What does hang onto mean?

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hang onto

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.38 in modern English

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"They hang onto all these kinds of thing, and insist that only what offers contact and touch is a thing that is."

hangs onto (present, singular) hanging onto (participle, present) hung onto (participle, past) hung onto (past)

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