HANG UP


Meaning of HANG UP in English

hang up phrasal verb ( see also ↑ hang )

1 . to finish a telephone conversation:

I said goodbye and hung up.

hang up on

Don’t hang up on me.

2 . hang something ↔ up to hang clothes on a hook etc:

She took her coat off and hung it up.

3 . hang up your hat/football boots/briefcase etc informal to stop doing a particular kind of work

⇨ ↑ hang-up , ↑ hung-up

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.