verb, noun
verb ( to stick out over and above sth else:
[VN] His big fat belly overhung his belt. * [V] The path was cool and dark with overhanging trees.
Part of speech: noun
1 the part of sth that sticks out over and above sth else:
The roof has an overhang to protect the walls from the rain.
2 the amount by which sth hangs over and above sth else
3 [usuallysing.] )especially AmE, business( the state of being extra to what is required; the things that are extra:
attempts to reduce the overhang of unsold goods
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for overhang is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is overhang a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, overhang is tagged as noun.
Does overhang appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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