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Hang up   /hæŋ əp/   Listen
Hang up

verb
1.
Put a telephone receiver back in its cradle.
2.
Cause to be hanging or suspended.  Synonym: hang.
3.
Interrupt a telephone conversation.






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"Hang up" Quotes from Famous Books



... of some of our cottagers here to hang up embossed cards at the foot of their bed, with texts of Scripture written on them. There is one verse I should like to hang before every son of mine, though I had ten of them, that it might meet their eyes last ere ...
— Elster's Folly • Mrs. Henry Wood

... have the wrong dimension," I cried before the operator could hang up. "This is an emergency. A couple of crooks stole my Drinko. Please get me ...
— Sorry: Wrong Dimension • Ross Rocklynne

... mitten, and rub each piece of meat thoroughly. Then pack skin side down, ham upon ham, side upon side, strewing on salt abundantly. It is best to put large and small pieces in different boxes for the convenience of getting at them to hang up at the different times they will come into readiness. The weather has so much to do with the time that meat requires to take salt that no particular time can be specified for ...
— Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 • Barkham Burroughs

... understood it, there were apt to be annoyances. So, without taking the trouble to make the punishment fit the crime, he casually locked her in the sitting-room closet one morning. She had stepped inside to hang up her hat and coat as usual, and it was quite easy, swiftly, noiselessly, to close the door upon her, and turn ...
— Martha By-the-Day • Julie M. Lippmann

... built, the workmen hang up an egg shell or a piece of alum, or an old root, or a donkey's skull, in the front door, to keep off the evil eye. Moslem women leave their children ragged and dirty to keep people from admiring them, and thus smiting them with ...
— The Women of the Arabs • Henry Harris Jessup


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