to hang a piece of clothing on something
to leave your job, especially when you are old enough to stop working
to stop using a telephone at the end of a conversation
to stop using something because you are no longer doing a particular sport or activity
Finally, he was able to hang up, drained from the experience.
Greg hung up and sat back in his chair.
If you don't have a hang-up about dating a younger man, give me a call.
Mac's phone rang fifteen times before Stone jiggled the hang-up bar in exasperation to get the desk clerk back on the line.
Nicola has decided it’s time to hang up her dancing shoes.
She had no idea why she didn't just hang up on Lorraine Temple.
Starting to hang up, he was halted by the sudden, startling change in the quality of the voice.
The women hung up their coats and sat down.
Time for the fishermen to haul in their boats, pull in the lobster pots, and hang up their nets for winter mending.
Today that's not a hobby, that's a hang-up ," said Harriet.
`Men tell me I've got a ` hang-up " about sex, which is a roundabout way of saying I'm mad not to give them what they want.
‘Get lost!’ she shouted, and hung up on me.
hangs up
hanging up
hung up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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