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• hung-up
  hung-up

  adjective

  beset with psychological problems.
• hung up
  hung up

  see under hang up.

hung-up

American  

[huhng-uhp] / ˈhʌŋˈʌp /

adjective

Slang.

1. beset with psychological problems.

2. worried; anxious; concerned.

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hung up Idioms  

1. see under hang up.

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Example Sentences

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hung-up hung up

“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

I’m not hung-up on the exact amount; I’m fascinated about its significance and what this means to Boomers and their children and grandchildren.

From Forbes ● Sep. 30, 2014

For once she would have one of those hung-up sentences completed.

From A Crooked Mile by Oliver [pseud.] Onions

This particular issue was settled more than six years ago, but yesterday he told me “have a nice life” and hung up.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

There was room for a five-month stay in Paris before the midfielder hung up his iconic Preds, winning Ligue 1 and waving an emotional goodbye in 2013.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

As he surveyed the men he was being paid to lead, Jon Sumrall, a former linebacker who long ago hung up his shoulderpads, realized that these supposed behemoths couldn’t lift all that much weight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Don’t get hung up on the timeline, he added.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

Even in winter when nothing was blooming, people made flowers out of gauze or newspaper or hung up pictures of them.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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