hung-up
Americanadjective
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beset with psychological problems.
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worried; anxious; concerned.
Example Sentences
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Center fielder Yonathan Daza held onto the ball to allow a hung-up Carlos Santana to score in the third.
From Seattle Times • May 13, 2022
“He’s singing for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe,” Ginsberg exalted.
From Slate • May 25, 2021
So I’m not sure why certain commentators get so hung-up on it.
From Golf Digest • Sep. 26, 2018
“What is happening to LIFE?” lamented another, calling the “psyched-out, hung-up, off-their-rockers” musicians “outrageous,” and not in a good way.
From Time • Feb. 6, 2015
Steve and two teamsters who had been hung-up on the roads had spent the night watching that flying sparks did not catch its splintery grey shingles.
From The Pioneers by Prichard, Katharine Susannah
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