hang up

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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. To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.

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

• hung up
• ring off

• uphang