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Definition of Hang-up
1. Noun. An emotional preoccupation.
2. Noun. An unforeseen obstacle.
Definition of Hang-up
1. Noun. an emotional difficulty or a psychological inhibition; a complex ¹
2. Noun. an unforeseen obstacle to progress; a hitch ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hang-up
Literary usage of Hang-up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Hang up Love's mistletoe over the earth, And let us kiss under it all the year
round. But there may be too much of a good thing, and then, too, ..."
2. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"Of votive offerings, to hang up.Jtai- cate, consecrate: votas suspendere ...
To hang up, stay, stop, check, inter rupt, suspend: fletum, 0. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"We haven't nowhere е!ьс to go if you don't allow, It would really be a charity
to hang up David's The Water-Color place allows no oilman to appear— And the ..."
4. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1848)
"(From the Miser, act iii, by Thomas Shadwell, Esq.) COME, lay by your cares, and
hang up your sorrow; Drink on, he's a sot that e'er thinks on to-morrow; ..."
5. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Hang up his hat (common), to make one's self permanently at home, ... When a man
loses his temper, and ain't cool, he might as well hang up ..."
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