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View synonyms for hung-up

hung-up

[ huhng-uhp ]

adjective

, Slang.
  1. beset with psychological problems.
  2. worried; anxious; concerned.


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Idioms and Phrases

see under hang up .

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Example Sentences

But being hung up on before having chance to tell the unnamed desk sergeant I was with the fourth estate is not the norm.

Schools are more than happy to help players bulk up but nothing is done to help them slim down after the cleats get hung up.

By the time they hung up their Union Jack dresses in 2000, the Spice Girls had sold over 55 million records worldwide.

Bucca hung up the phone and started up the stairway with fellow fire marshal John Devery.

Robyn still thinks of the ex-boyfriend who hung up on her when she disclosed her status.

He carefully upset three dinner pails from the shelves in the rear as he hung up his hat.

A few may always be seen, however, hung up in the market with the Common Snipes through the autumn and winter.

And then he hung up, left the station to vanish into the murk of the rain swept night.

The wet uniforms were hung up to dry, Mr. Darwood in the meantime lending the lads some other garments.

When it has had its first sweat, it is hung up on racks; and here Mr. Culp's process is peculiar.

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