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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

“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

What is it that thou have a hundred thousand-pound bills laid-up in thy strong-room, a hundred scalps hung-up in thy wigwam?

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas