hang up betydelse and definition

Betydelse av hang up på svenska

• 0 to end a phone conversation:

  • He started shouting so I hung up (on him).

  • Let me speak to Melanie before you hang up.

• 1 a permanent and unreasonable feeling of anxiety about a particular feature of yourself:

  • sexual hang-ups

  • He's one of these men who went bald very young and has a terrible hang-up about it.

• 2 to end a telephone conversation by ending the connection:

  • Don’t hang up – there’s something else I want to say.

  • She hung up on me (= suddenly ended the connection between us) in the middle of a sentence.

• 3 a problem that causes a delay:

  • The doctor never got back to me with the test results – I guess there was some hang-up over the weekend.

  • Everyone has their hang-up.