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hang up

• hang from a hook.
• "your dressing gown's hanging up behind the door"
• end a phone conversation by cutting the connection.
• "‘Thanks,’ she says, and hangs up"

hang-up noun

• an emotional problem or inhibition.
• "people with hang-ups about their age"
Similar: neurosis, preoccupation, fixation, obsession, phobia, mania, inhibition, mental block, psychological block, block, difficulty, idée fixe, complex, thing, bee in one's bonnet,


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