To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line.ambitransitive, idiomatic
To stop talking.figuratively, idiomatic, intransitive
To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.colloquial, idiomatic, transitive
To rob or mug (someone).idiomatic
To arrest (someone); to send (someone) to prison.idiomatic
To quit (something); to give up or stop doing (something); to abandon (something).idiomatic
To distress, disadvantage or harm (someone).idiomatic
Forms
he/she/it
hangs up
-ing form
hanging up
past participle
hung up
past
hung up
Example sentences371 results
Finally, Susan cuts her mother short, promises to write, and hangs up.
Lingaku