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Definition of Hang-up

1. Noun. An emotional preoccupation.

2. Noun. An unforeseen obstacle.

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hang-up

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Literary usage of Hang-up

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1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Hang up Love's mistletoe over the earth, And let us kiss under it all the year round. But there may be too much of a good thing, and then, too, ..."

2. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"Of votive offerings, to hang up.Jtai- cate, consecrate: votas suspendere ... To hang up, stay, stop, check, inter rupt, suspend: fletum, 0. ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"We haven't nowhere е!ьс to go if you don't allow, It would really be a charity to hang up David's The Water-Color place allows no oilman to appear— And the ..."

4. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1848)
"(From the Miser, act iii, by Thomas Shadwell, Esq.) COME, lay by your cares, and hang up your sorrow; Drink on, he's a sot that e'er thinks on to-morrow; ..."

5. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Hang up his hat (common), to make one's self permanently at home, ... When a man loses his temper, and ain't cool, he might as well hang up ..."

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