hung up
adjective
1
: delayed or detained for a time
2
: anxiously nervous
3
: having great or excessive interest in or preoccupation with someone or something
—usually used with on
they broke up but he's still hung up on her
hung up on winning
Examples of hung up in a Sentence
Many people are hung up about their physical appearance.
parents of a toddler who are already hung up about her getting into a good college
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Thirty-five years since the two women hung up the phone on an early morning in January, promising to check in again in the afternoon.
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Sarah Dahlberg, NBC news, 8 Feb. 2026
The firm’s president, Josh Lipoff, hung up on a reporter this week when reached by phone and didn’t respond to an email.
—Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
Paton hung up, and called back, and walked Lock through it, and Natalie stood across from him, gesturing with her fingers in the air as if pointing at an invisible map of the United States.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026
Neither of us hung up the phone, and neither of us moved about the rest of our days.
—Eric Nehm, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
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Sarah Dahlberg, NBC news, 8 Feb. 2026
The firm’s president, Josh Lipoff, hung up on a reporter this week when reached by phone and didn’t respond to an email.
—Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
Paton hung up, and called back, and walked Lock through it, and Natalie stood across from him, gesturing with her fingers in the air as if pointing at an invisible map of the United States.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026
Neither of us hung up the phone, and neither of us moved about the rest of our days.
—Eric Nehm, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for hung up
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“Hung up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hung%20up. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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