Usually means: Obsessively fixated on something specific.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word hung up:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. hung up: Merriam-Webster
  2. hung up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hung up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hung up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hung up: Vocabulary.com
  6. hung-up: Wordnik
  7. hung-up, hung up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hung up: Wiktionary
  9. hung-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. hung-up, hung up: Dictionary.com
  11. Hung Up (Hot Chelle Rae song), Hung Up (Madonna song), Hung Up (Paul Weller song), Hung Up (film), Hung Up, Hung up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. hung-up, hung up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. hung up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Hung up: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. hung up: Legal dictionary
  5. Hung Up (Madonna song), Hung Up (song), Hung Up: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hung up: Encyclopedia

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

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hung up, hung up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hung-up: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hung up)

▸ adjective:  Having a hang-up, or emotional difficulty.
▸ adjective:  (baseball, of a runner, not comparable) In a position such that the path to the desired base is blocked by a fielder holding the ball; caught in a rundown.

Similar:
hangared, hangnailed, hafted, hyppish, hocked, hard of hearing, hooped, hala, hiccupy, hanging, more...

Opposite:
down, low

Types:
obsessed, preoccupied, consumed, fixated, infatuated, smitten, more...

Phrases:
hung up on, to be hung up on the past, someone hung up the phone, get hung up on, someone hung up, more...

Adjectives:
dree, hold, stay, tarry, stick, pocket, stay at home, go

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Similar:
hangared, hangnailed, hafted, hyppish, hocked, hard of hearing, hooped, hala, hiccupy, hanging, more...

Opposite:
down, low

Types:
obsessed, preoccupied, consumed, fixated, infatuated, smitten, more...

Phrases:
hung up on, to be hung up on the past, someone hung up the phone, get hung up on, someone hung up, more...

Adjectives:
dree, hold, stay, tarry, stick, pocket, stay at home, go



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