'hang up' definitions:
Definition of 'hang up'
From: WordNet
verb
Put a telephone receiver back in its cradle
verb
Cause to be hanging or suspended; "Hang that picture on the wall" [syn: hang, hang up]
verb
Interrupt a telephone conversation
Synonyms of 'hang up'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adjourn,
- afterthought,
- bind,
- block,
- blockade,
- blockage,
- blow up,
- bog down,
- bottleneck,
- bureaucratic delay,
- buzz,
- call,
- call up,
- catch,
- come to nothing,
- complex,
- compulsion,
- continue,
- cordon,
- curtain,
- decelerate,
- defer,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- detain,
- detention,
- determent,
- deterrent,
- dial,
- difficulty,
- double take,
- drag out,
- dragging,
- drawback,
- explode,
- extend,
- fail miserably,
- fascination,
- fasten up,
- fixation,
- fixed idea,
- fizz out,
- fizzle,
- fizzle out,
- get nowhere,
- give a ring,
- go phut,
- halt,
- hang,
- hang fire,
- hazard,
- hindrance,
- hitch,
- hold off,
- hold over,
- hold the phone,
- hold up,
- holdup,
- hurdle,
- hypercathexis,
- idee fixe,
- interim,
- irresistible impulse,
- jam,
- joker,
- lag,
- lagging,
- lay aside,
- lay by,
- lay over,
- listen in,
- logjam,
- make a call,
- mire,
- misfire,
- monomania,
- moratorium,
- morbid drive,
- objection,
- obsession,
- obsessive compulsion,
- obstacle,
- obstruction,
- obstructive,
- one small difficulty,
- paperasserie,
- pause,
- phone,
- pigeonhole,
- poop out,
- possession,
- postpone,
- preoccupation,
- prepossession,
- prolong,
- prorogate,
- prorogue,
- protract,
- push aside,
- put aside,
- put off,
- put on ice,
- put up,
- recess,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- reprieve,
- reserve,
- respite,
- retard,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- ring,
- ring off,
- ring up,
- rub,
- ruling passion,
- set aside,
- set back,
- set by,
- shelve,
- shift off,
- slacken,
- sleep on,
- sling,
- slow down,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowness,
- snag,
- stand over,
- stave off,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- stretch out,
- stumbling block,
- stumbling stone,
- suspend,
- suspension,
- table,
- take a recess,
- telephone,
- tic,
- tie-up,
- time lag,
- wait,
- waive
Words containing 'hang up'
- Hang,
- Hanged,
- Hanging,
- To hang down,
- To hang on,
- To hang out,
- To hang over,
- To hang to,
- hang about,
- hang in,
- hang off,
- hang on,
- hang out,
- hang over,
- Chamber hangings,
- Hang-by,
- Hanging Rock,
- Hanging compass,
- Hanging garden,
- Hanging indentation,
- Hanging rail,
- Hanging side,
- Hanging sleeves,
- Hanging stile,
- Hanging wall,
- Paper hangings,
- To get the hang of,
- To hang around,
- To hang back,
- To hang by the eyelids,
- To hang fire,
- To hang in doubt,
- To hang in effigy,
- To hang in the hedge,
- To hang on the lips,
- To hang on the sleeve of,
- To hang on the words,
- To hang together,
- To hang upon,
- bent hang,
- care a hang,
- cliff hanging,
- get the hang,
- get the hang of,
- give a hang,
- hang around,
- hang around with,
- hang back,
- hang by a hair,
- hang by a thread,
- hang fire,
- hang glide,
- hang glider,
- hang gliding,
- hang in effigy,
- hang together,
- hang-up,
- hanging chad,
- hanging fly,
- hanging geranium,
- hanging indent,
- inverted hang,
- lever hang,
- reverse hang,
- straight hang,
- wall hanging,
- Hang-bies,
- Hanging Rock, OH,
- To hang out the white flag,
- cliff-hanging,
- hanging gardens of babylon,
- piked reverse hang,
- To hang the flag at half-staff,
- To hang the flag half-staff,
- To hang the flag half-mast high,
- The Mysticete or whalebone whales having no true teeth after birth but with a series of plates of whalebone see Baleen hanging down from the upper jaw on each side thus making a strainer through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed