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View definitions for hung up

hung up

adjective as in troubled

adjective as in intent

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Center fielder Yonathan Daza held onto the ball to allow a hung-up Carlos Santana to score in the third.

“He’s singing for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe,” Ginsberg exalted.

From Slate

"Agents knocked and called Ms. Jones both announcing the search warrant and encouraging her to cooperate. Ms. Jones refused to come to the door for 20 minutes and hung-up on agents," the agency said.

From Salon

“When agents arrived, they knocked on the door and called Ms. Jones in an attempt to minimize disruption to the family. Ms. Jones refused to come to the door for 20 minutes and hung-up on agents,” the statement added.

He rammed the point home with a stirring rendition of Dylan’s “Chimes of Freedom,” belting out the final words with his band all but silent until the last line: “Tolling for the achin’ ones whose wounds cannot be nursed For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones and worse And for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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