Usually means: End a telephone call abruptly.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word hang up:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. hang-up, hang up: Merriam-Webster
  2. hang-up, hang up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hang-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hang-up, hang-up, hang up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hang-up, hang up: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hang-Up, Hang-up, hang-up: Wordnik
  7. hang-up, hang up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hang-up, hang up: Wiktionary
  9. hang-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hang-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hang-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hang-up, hang up: Dictionary.com
  13. hang-up: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Hang up (disambiguation), Hang up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. hang-up, hang up: Rhymezone
  16. hang-up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. hang up: Phrasal Verb Page
  18. hang-up, hang up: FreeDictionary.org
  19. hang-up, hang up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. hang-up, hang up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. hang up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hang up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hang-up, hang up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hang up: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hang up, hang up, hang up, hang up, hang up, hang up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hang-up: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. hang up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hang up)

verb:  (transitive) To put up to hang.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To stop talking.
verb:  To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.
verb:  To rob or mug (someone).
verb:  To arrest (someone); to send (someone) to prison.
verb:  To quit (something); to give up or stop doing (something); to abandon (something).
verb:  To distress, disadvantage or harm (someone).

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