hung up
Speech parts
1. hung up - Adjective
2. hung up - Verb
Meaning
hung up
simple past and past participle of hang up
Having a hang-up, or emotional difficulty.
Gee, why are you still so hung up about missing those end-of-year activities?
(baseball, of a runner, not comparable) In a position such that the path to the desired base is blocked by a fielder holding the ball; caught in a rundown.
Snap throw to first, and they’ve got Sanchez hung up.
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A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.
Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.
I hung up. It was a step in the right direction, but it didn't go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hid under the desk.
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.
I have sifted my flour and hung up the sieve.