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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This January Silverblatt hung up his hat after a nearly 49-year run at Standard & Poor’s — now S&P Dow Jones Indices.
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John Towfighi, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
But getting hung up on the purity of beginning from the beginning is more likely to be a stumbling block than a source of pleasure.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2026
About 80 years after first getting her driver’s license, Gibson finally hung up her keys this past December.
—Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
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.
—Sarah Dahlberg, NBC news, 8 Feb. 2026
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John Towfighi, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
But getting hung up on the purity of beginning from the beginning is more likely to be a stumbling block than a source of pleasure.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2026
About 80 years after first getting her driver’s license, Gibson finally hung up her keys this past December.
—Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
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.
—Sarah Dahlberg, NBC news, 8 Feb. 2026
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“Hung up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hung%20up. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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