hang up
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hang up (third-person singular simple present hangs up, present participle hanging up, simple past and past participle hung up)
- (transitive) To put up to hang.
- I hung up my wash on the line.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line.
- When my mother started telling me to be careful over the phone, I threatened to hang up on her.
- 1974, Harry Chapin and Sandra Chapin (lyrics and music), “Cat's in the Cradle”, in Verities & Balderdash, performed by Harry Chapin:
- And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me
He'd grown up just like me
My boy was just like me.
- To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.
Synonyms[edit]
- (terminate a phone call): release (a call from), put the phone down (on); ring off
Translations[edit]
put up to hang
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terminate a phone call
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emotionally trouble
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