hang up

See also: hangup and hang-up

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

hang up (third-person singular simple present hangs up, present participle hanging up, simple past and past participle hung up)

1. (transitive) To put up to hang.

   I hung up my wash on the line.

2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line.

   When my mother started telling me to be careful over the phone, I threatened to hang up on her.

   • 1974, Harry Chapin and Sandra Chapin (lyrics and music), “Cat's in the Cradle”, in Verities & Balderdash, performed by Harry Chapin:

     And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me
     He'd grown up just like me
     My boy was just like me.

3. (intransitive, figurative) To stop talking.
4. To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.
5. To rob or mug (someone).
6. To arrest (someone); to send (someone) to prison.
7. To quit (something); to give up or stop doing (something); to abandon (something).

   He hung up the flute after college.

   I think it's time to hang it up.

8. To distress, disadvantage or harm (someone).

Synonyms

• (terminate a phone call): release (a call from), put the phone down (on); ring off

Derived terms

• hang-up call

 

Translations

put up to hang

• Ainu: アッテ (atte)
• Arabic: عَلَّقَ (ʕallaqa)
• Asturian: colgar
• Catalan: penjar (ca)
• Cherokee: (long object) ᎬᏙᏌᏗᎠ (gvdosadia)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 掛／挂 (zh) (guà)

• Czech: pověsit pf
• Finnish: ripustaa (fi)
• French: suspendre (fr)
• Galician: colgar (gl)
• Georgian: ჩამოკიდება (čamoḳideba)
• German: aufhängen (de)
• Hungarian: felakaszt (hu)
• Icelandic: hengja (is)
• Ido: pendar (io)
• Ingrian: ripustaa, löövvä
• Italian: appendere (it)
• Japanese: 掛ける (ja) (かける, kakeru)
• Latin: suspendō
• Maori: houtāwere, whakahīweka, whakairi, whakatārawa
• Norwegian: la på røret, legge på
• Ottoman Turkish: آصمق (asmak)
• Portuguese: pendurar (pt)
• Romanian: agăța (ro), atârna (ro)
• Russian: ве́шать (ru) impf (véšatʹ), пове́сить (ru) pf (povésitʹ)
• Spanish: colgar (es)
• Swedish: hänga upp
• Turkish: asmak (tr)

terminate a phone call

• Arabic: أَغْلَقَ الْخَطّ (ʔaḡlaqa al-ḵaṭṭ)
• Asturian: colgar
• Catalan: penjar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 掛斷／挂断 (gwaa³ tyun⁵), cut線／cut线 (kat¹ sin³)

  Mandarin: 掛斷／挂断 (zh) (guàduàn) (電話／电话 (zh) (diànhuà)), 挂断 (zh) (guàduàn) (电话 (zh) (diànhuà))

• Czech: zavěsit pf
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: leggja á
• Finnish: katkaista (fi), sulkea puhelin, lopettaa puhelu, katkaista puhelu
• French: raccrocher (fr), raccrocher au nez (fr)
• Galician: colgar (gl)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: auflegen (de)
• Hungarian: letesz (hu), kinyom (hu)
• Icelandic: leggja á, skella á
• Italian: riagganciare (it), riattaccare
• Japanese: 電話を切る (でんわをきる, denwa o kiru)
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 전화를 끊다 (jeonhwareul kkeunta)
• Luxembourgish: anhänken
• Polish: odkładać (pl) impf słuchawkę, odłożyć (pl) pf słuchawkę
• Portuguese: desligar (pt)
• Romanian: închide (ro)
• Russian: класть тру́бку impf (klastʹ trúbku), положи́ть тру́бку pf (položítʹ trúbku), ве́шать тру́бку impf (véšatʹ trúbku), пове́сить тру́бку pf (povésitʹ trúbku)
• Spanish: colgar (es), cortar (es)
• Swahili: -kata simu
• Swedish: lägga på (sv)
• Turkish: kapatmak (tr)
• Vietnamese: cúp máy

emotionally trouble

• Finnish: vaivata (fi)
• Italian: tenere in sospeso, tenere in attesa, tenere sulle spine, rimuginare (it)
• Japanese: 弱らせる (ja) (よわせる、yowaseru)

See also

• hung up
• ring off

Anagrams

• uphang