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Definition 2024
hang-up
hang-up
English
Alternative spellings
Noun
- an emotional difficulty or a psychological inhibition; a complex
- 2013, Nic Fleming, at BBC, Sex Lessons, British Style
- We’re said to have so many hang-ups that we don’t even talk about sex until we’re in the pub, and to need to be blind drunk before anything approaching physical contact occurs.
- 2013, Nic Fleming, at BBC, Sex Lessons, British Style
- an unforeseen obstacle to progress; a hitch