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Definition of Hang up

1. Verb. Put a telephone receiver back in its cradle.

2. Verb. Cause to be hanging or suspended. "They hang up the lights from the ceiling"; "Hang that picture on the wall"

3. Verb. Interrupt a telephone conversation.

Definition of Hang up

1. Verb. (transitive) To put up to hang ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive idiomatic) To terminate a telephone call ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hang Up

hang on hang on every word hang onto hang out hang out one's shingle hang out to dry hang over hang paper hang ten hang the moon

hang tight hang time hang times hang together hang tough hang up hang up one's boots hangable hangar hangar-queen

hangar queen hangarage hangared hangaring hangarless hangarlike hangars hangashore hangashores hangbird

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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