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.com
  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: Free Dictionary
  19. hang-up, hang up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. hang-up, hang up: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. hang-up, hang up: Dictionary/thesaurus

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:  To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.

Similar:
hang, uphang, unhang, put down, release, underhang, peg out, take down, suspend, hang up one's fiddle, more...

Opposite:
answer, pick up, connect, accept

Types:
obsession, phobia, mania, idée fixe, more...

Phrases:
hang it up, hang up on phone calls, hang up button, to hang up, more...

Adjectives:
halt, lean, put up, traverse, run, hold, tag, run in, stay, run-in, run-on

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Similar:
hang, uphang, unhang, put down, release, underhang, peg out, take down, suspend, hang up one's fiddle, more...

Opposite:
answer, pick up, connect, accept

Types:
obsession, phobia, mania, idée fixe, more...

Phrases:
hang it up, hang up on phone calls, hang up button, to hang up, more...

Adjectives:
halt, lean, put up, traverse, run, hold, tag, run in, stay, run-in, run-on

Colors:
    red,     yellow,     orange,     green,     blue,     purple,     pink,     black,     white,     gray



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