Definition of "be around"

be around

verb
third-person singular simple present is around, present participle being around, simple past was around, past participle been around
1. (idiomatic, intransitive, stative) To be alive, existent, or present.
  Quotations
  Well, sir, you remember this young Georgie sort of disappeared, after his grandfather's death, and nobody seemed to know much what had become of him—though I did hear, once or twice, that he was still around somewhere.
  1918, Booth Tarkington, chapter 34, in The Magnificent Ambersons
  The New York-style hot dog I love has been around for well over a hundred years.
  2005 May 25, Ed Levine, “It's All in How the Dog Is Served”, in New York Times, retrieved 1 Jan. 2009
2. (idiomatic, transitive) To be near; to socialize with.