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What does hang up mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hang up? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To put up to hang.
  2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To terminate a telephone call.
  3. To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.
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After five rings, I was about to hang up, when I heard a gruff voice answer.
The owners are now cooking up a new business venture, but their 60 or so employees aren't ready to hang up their pot holders just yet.
The holsters have a lip curl so the cylinder will not hang up when re-holstering.
To prevent the Ephialtes or night-mare we hang up a hollow stone in our stables.
The daily quota of manioc flour must be of five level alqueires, placing enough harvesters so that these can serve to hang up the coverings.
Jamie and a seventeen-year-old girl, Amber, were chosen to go around town and hang up flyers announcing the event.

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