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hangup en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of hang-up.
    alt of hang-up
    • Adding their own hangups to the mix was easy and unexposing, says Norton. 2026 July 3, Catherine Shoard, “‘I feel both thrilled and ruined by this’: Olivia Wilde and Edward Norton on making sex comedy The Invite”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
    • One result of the sexual revolution was the spread of venereal disease to near-epidemic proportions. The clap was, as one writer put it, “one of the hangups of the new morality.” 1991, Timothy Miller, The hippies and American values, University of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 63:

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