hang up

1. 1.

   put a telephone receiver back in its cradle

   Broaderreplace
2. 2.

   cause to be hanging or suspended

   “Hang that picture on the wall”

   Synonymshang

   Broaderfasten

   Narrowersuspendsling
3. 3.

   interrupt a telephone conversation

   Broadercut short

Questions about hang up

What does hang up mean?

hang up means "put a telephone receiver back in its cradle". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for hang up?

Close synonyms include hang. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hang up a common word?

hang up is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.