Usually means: Maintain grip; persist through difficulties.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. hang on: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hang on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hang on: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hang on: Vocabulary.com
  5. Hang-on, hang-on: Wordnik
  6. hang on: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. hang on: Wiktionary
  8. hang-on: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. hang-on, hang on: Dictionary.com
  10. Hang-On, Hang On (Plumb song), Hang On (Weezer song), Hang on: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. hang on: Rhymezone
  12. Hang On: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  13. hang on: Free Dictionary
  14. hang on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. hang on: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hang on: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hang on: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hang on: Idioms

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hang on)

verb:  (chiefly imperative) To wait a moment.
verb:  To hold, grasp, or grip.
verb:  To keep; to store something for someone.
verb:  To pay close attention to, or regard with (possibly obsequious) admiration.
verb:  To continually believe in something; to have faith in.
verb:  To persevere.
verb:  To depend upon.
verb:  To weigh down or oppress.
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, on.

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