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View synonyms for hung-up

hung-up

[ huhng-uhp ]

adjective

, Slang.
  1. beset with psychological problems.
  2. worried; anxious; concerned.


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Idioms and Phrases

see under hang up .
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Example Sentences

He claimed that she instead said she would “ask someone else” and hung up on him.

At 8:13 p.m., she pressed the intercom button, but got only a few words out before the deputy hung up.

Only in cricket do we get so hung up about the pitch the sport is played upon.

From BBC

Tony has hung up his platform shoes to audition for Broadway musicals, scoring a role in a bombastic dance extravaganza.

“I didn’t curse or anything. I just hung up the phone,” Amos told the Television Academy.

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