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Definition of Hangup
1. an inhibition or obsession [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hangup
Literary usage of Hangup
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Papers and Proceedings of the Surgeon General's Conference on Agricultural edited by Melvin L. Myers (1994)
"Many fellers have been killed by a falling tree that had a hangup only minutes
... Examples of poor techniques include felling a tree with a hangup in it, ..."
2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1860)
"A tongue of low land stretches from this cape in a SW £ W. direction for one and
two-tenth miles, rendering caution necessary in passing hangup in hazy ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1860)
"Vessels from the eastward should not bring the light to bear more westerly than
NW -, W , by which they will clear all danger ofT Cape hangup. ..."
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