0 to end a phone conversation: --
Let me speak to Melanie before you hang up.
He started shouting so I hung up (on him).
1 a permanent and unreasonable feeling of anxiety about a particular feature of yourself: --
He's one of these men who went bald very young and has a terrible hang-up about it.
sexual hang-ups
2 to end a telephone conversation by ending the connection: --
She hung up on me (= suddenly ended the connection between us) in the middle of a sentence.
Don’t hang up – there’s something else I want to say.
3 a problem that causes a delay: --
Everyone has their hang-up.
The doctor never got back to me with the test results – I guess there was some hang-up over the weekend.
NYA ORD
European
May 10, 2021
DAGENS ORD
Shimmer
hang up