Hang Up

Definitions: Hang Up

Hang Up

Verb

1. Put a telephone receiver back in its cradle.

2. Cause to be hanging or suspended; "Hang that picture on the wall".

3. Interrupt a telephone conversation.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Hang Up

End

Verb: end, close, finish, terminate, conclude, be all over; expire; die; come-, draw- to a -close; Noun: have run its course; run out, pass away. bring to an -end; Noun: put an end to, make an end of; determine; get through; achieve; (complete); stop; (make to cease); shut up shop; hang up one's fiddle.

Crosswords: Hang Up

I'm going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

You hang up on me again, I'll gut you like a fish, understand? (Scream; writing credit: Kevin Williamson)

I must hang up now, Clarice. (Silence of the Lambs; writing credit: Ted Tally)

Please hang up and don't call back. (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron)

Hello? Oh Hi.. I didn't mean to hang up on you before but you really do have the wrong number. (Hogan's Heroes; writing credit: Gail Allen; Gwen Bagni)

Now I must hang up the phone. ("Last Train to Clarksville"; performing artist: The Monkees)

I hang up the phone and I cry ("Shake Your Love"; performing artist: Debbie Gibson)

Call up, ring once, hang up the phone ("Part-time lover"; performing artist: Stevie Wonder)

Hang up and drive. (references; author: unknown)

The Hang Up (1970)

Hang Up (1969)

Don't Hang Up (performing artist: The Orlons)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Thou Shalt Hang Up Thy Beliefs At The Plant Gate -- Wrong! Christians Unite Faith And Work [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• When God Puts You On Hold Don't Hang Up (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• If It's a Man Hang Up (reference)

• The Jerky Boys: Don't Hang Up, Toughguy! (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Hang Up Sorrow & Care (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "hang up": a hang up ♦ hang up in the wrong place ♦ hang up on smb. ♦ hang up one's boots ♦ hang up one's fiddle. Additional references.

Albanian

vonoj (be late, delay, detain, hinder, hold up, linger, procrastinate, retard, slow down, wait), var në varëse, var (dangle, drape, hang, hook, rope, string up, suspend), ul receptorin e telefonit, shtyj (actuate, adjourn, bring, carry over, dare, delay, detrude, dig, dispose, drive, dub, flip, goad, hold over, hustle, impel, incite, induce, instigate, jab, jog, jolt, jostle, jumble, lead on, leave over, lengthen, motivate, motive, move, postpone, pressurize, propel, push, recess, shove, thrust, trundle, urge, waive, walk), frenoj (apply the brakes, be an obstacle to, bit, brake, check, choke up, clog, contain, control, Cork, damp, delay, detain, deter, fetter, guard, hamper, hedge in, hold, hold back, hold in, inhibit, interrupt, keep in, put back, rein, retard, set back, stay put, stem, stop). (various references)

Arabic 

‏علق (annotate, comment, commentate, dangle, gloss, hang, hinge, pin out, rest, shelve, sling, stop, string up, suspend, swing), ‏أنهى محادثة هاتفية (disconnect a call, ring off), ‏شنق (be executed, gibbet, hanging, strangle, strangulation). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спирам (arrest, bit, block, brake, bring to, bring to rest, bring up, call a halt, cease, check, come to a halt, come to rest, cut, cut off, cut short, die, discontinue, draw up, drive up, dwell, end, fix, go phut, halt, heave to, hold back, hold in, immobilize, impede, inhibit, intervene, keep off, kill, leave off, lock, occlude, preclude, prevent, pull in, pull up, put in, quash, quit, run down, snub, stint, stop, suppress, suspend, trammel, trig, withhold), натрапчива мисъл, затруднение (ado, cumber, difficulty, drawback, embarrassment, encumbrance, hard sledding, hardship, hitch, involvement, jackpot, perplexity, pinch, predicament, pressure, quandary, rub, scrape, spot, tickler, tight corner, tight squeeze, trouble), закачам (append, bangle, catch, clasp, dangle, graze, hang, hang out, hitch, hook, jive, jolly, pin on, pin up, put up, rib, ride, roast, rough-house, tease, tooth, twit), забавям (arrest, cool, defer, delay, detain, hold back, hold off, hold over, inhibit, postpone, put back, put over, retard, set back, sidetrack, slacken, slow, slow down, stave off, steady), прекъсвам телефонен разговор (hang off), поставям рекорд, постигам рекорд. (various references)

Chinese 

掛好 (to hang up properly). (various references)

Czech

zdržet (delay, detain, hold up, keep, retard), zavìsit (hang, hang out, ring off, sling, suspend), povìsit (hang, string up, tie up, turn off), komplex (complex, pack). (various references)

Finnish

lopettaa puhelu (ring off). (various references)

French

raccrocher (hang up/to, to hangup, to hang-up). (various references)

German

auflegen (apply, bring out, display, issue, lay, lay up, print, put on, put up, replace, replacement, ring off, to apply, to apply (to), to hang-up, wrap in). (various references)

Greek 

κλείνω το τηλέφωνο (replace the receiver, ring off). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתלות (hang, sling, string up, suspend), לסים שיחת טלפון (ring off). (various references)

Hungarian

leteszi a telefonkagylót, késleltet (defer, delay, protract, retard, to delay, to intermit, to protract, to put back, to retard, to slacken, to slow, to stay, to throw back), felakaszt (hang, hook up, string up, suspend, to halter, to hang up, to hook on, to hook up, to scrag, to truss up), elnapol (adjourn, prorogue, put off, risen, rose, to adjourn, to hold over, to put off, to rise). (various references)

Indonesian

menggantung (adjurn, be suspended, hang). (various references)

Italian

appendere q.c.. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

電話�'切る (to hang up the receiver), 吊し上�'る (to hang up), 吊り上�'る (to hang up, to lift, to raise, to suspend), 切る (to be through, to break off, to carve, to chop, to clip, to complete, to cross, to cut, to cut down, to disconnect, to discount, to fell, to finish, to hang up, to hash, to pause, to punch, to saw, to sell below cost, to sever, to shakeoff, to shear, to slice, to strip, to turn off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きる (to be through, to behead, to break off, to carve, to chop, to clip, to complete, to cross, to cut, to cut down, to disconnect, to discount, to fell, to finish, to hang up, to hash, to murder, to pause, to punch, to put on, to saw, to sell below cost, to sever, to shakeoff, to shear, to slice, to strip, to turn off, to wear), で�"わ�'きる (to hang up the receiver), つりあ�'る (to boost, to hang up, to lift, to pull in, to raise, to suspend), つるしあ�'る (to conduct a kangaroo court, to hang up). (various references)

Manx

lhiettrimys (bafflement, balk, balk hinderance, ban, bar, barobstruction, constriction, disqualification, drag, drawback, handicap, hazard, hindrance, hold up, impediment, injunction, jam, obstacle, prevention, sanction, victimization). (various references)

Pig Latin

anghay upay.(various references)

Portuguese

sobra (balance, end, leftover, offal, offcut, over, overpoise, remainder, remnant, rest, waste), mania (crank, craze, crotchet, fad, furore, furred, habit, kink, mania), desligar (break, cut out, detach, disconnect, out, separate, shut off, switch off, to shut off, turn off, unbind, unlink, unplug, untie), aparecer (appear, be published, come on, come to light, emerge, perform, rise, show, show up, to appear, turn up). (various references)

Romanian

lãsa de o parte (count out, lay aside, lay by, leave out of consideration, let alone), lãsa în suspensie, amâna (adjourn, continue, dally, delay, drive, hold over, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, protract, put by, put off, refer, reprieve, shunt, stay). (various references)

Russian 

вешать телефонную трубку, откладывать (adjourn, defer, deposit, hoard, hold over, lay aside, lay by, leave over, postpone, put aside, put away, put by, put off, put over, reserve, set apart, set aside, set by, shunt, store, suspend), навесить, навешивать, медлить (delay, draggle, hang fire, lag, linger, loiter, procrastinate, tarry), подвесить (suspend). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

spustiti (bring down, drop, fall, keep down, lay down, lend, let down, lower, put down, set down, turn down), prepreka (ado, balk, bar, barrage, barrier, baulk, difficulty, drag, drawback, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impeachment, impediment, liability, obstacle, obstruction, set back, setback, snag, static, trammel, traverse), obesiti (gibbet, hang, sling, string, string up, suspend, tuck up), inhibicija (inhibition). (various references)

Spanish

suspender (abate, adjourn, ban, call off, catch, discontinue, fail, flunk, hang, hold up, knock off, lay aside, lay by, lay off, leave off, pip, pluck, reject, stay, stop, suspend), enganchar (attach, buttonhole, gaff, harness, hitch, hook, hook up, inveigle, put to, recruit, rope in, snag, to put to, to yoke), colgar el teléfono (ring off), colgar (append, dangle, droop, halter, hang, hang down, hang out, loll, loll out, put up, ring off, sag, sling, string up, to hangup, to hang-up, to replace the receiver, top), causar un retraso. (various references)

Swedish

upphänga (suspend), ständigt problem, fixering (binding, fix, fixation, fixing, mounting, setting, stare, staring). (various references)

Turkish

telefonu kapatmak, kapamak (block, block up, bung up, close, confine, coop, coop in, coop up, cover, cover in, encase, fence in, obstruct, obturate, occlude, seal, shut, shut down, shut in, shut out, shut to, shut up, shutter, stop, stop up, top, turn off, turn out, wind up, wipe out), ertelemek (adjourn, carry over, continue, defer, delay, hold off, hold over, lay aside, lay by, lay over, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, put off, reprieve, reserve, respite, scrub, shelve, sidetrack, stay, suspend, table, waive), asmak (bunk, drape, drape over, gibbet, halter, hang, hang on, hang out, neglect, play hooky, post, post up, skip, skive off, sling, string up, suspend, swing, truss, wag). (various references)

Turkmen 

asmak. (various references)

Ukranian 

підвісити, повісити (string up). (various references)

suspendatur, suspende, suspendebant, suspendent, suspendentes, suspenderant, suspenderunt, suspendet, suspendi, suspendimus, suspendit, suspendite, suspensi, suspensis, suspenso, suspensus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hangup.

-2 letters: gaun, guan, hang, hung, pang, pugh, puna, pung.

-3 letters: gan, gap, gnu, gun, hag, hap, hug, hun, hup, nag, nah, nap, pah, pan, pug, pun, ugh.

-4 letters: ag, ah, an, ha, na, nu, pa, uh, un, up.

+1 letter: hangups.

+2 letters: sphagnum.

+3 letters: sphagnous, sphagnums, straphung, upheaping, upheaving.

+4 letters: agapanthus, galumphing, harumphing, purchasing, sulphating, uphoarding, upreaching.

+5 letters: harrumphing, monophagous, parachuting, pneumograph, prognathous, upgathering, uranography.

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