hang upverb

• 1

  To put up to hang.

  • I hung up my wash on the line.
• 2

  To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line.

  • When my mother started telling me to be careful over the phone, I threatened to hang up on her.
  • And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me He'd grown up just like me My boy was just like me.
• 3

  To stop talking.

• 4

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

  • Seeing you's all I've been thinking about. You know I wouldn't hang you up this way if it wasn't for a damned good reason.
• 5

  To rob or mug (someone).

• 6

  To arrest (someone); to send (someone) to prison.

  • So call up Trudy on the telephone / Send her a letter in the mail / Tell her I'm hung up in Dallas / They won't let me out of this jail
• 7

  To quit (something); to give up or stop doing (something); to abandon (something).

  • He hung up the flute after college.
  • I think it's time to hang it up.
• 8

  To distress, disadvantage or harm (someone).