hung up

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hung up

adj. Informal

1. Delayed; hindered: motorists hung up in traffic.

2. also hung-up (hŭng′ŭp′) Anxious; nervous: He got hung up on the details. She was all hung-up before the interview.

3. Overly involved or preoccupied: a teenager hung up on the latest fashions.

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Translations

complessato ossessionato

hung up

adj (inf) to be/get hung up about something (= be neurotic) → wegen etw einen Knacks weghaben (inf) → /durchdrehen (inf); (= have complex) → Komplexe wegen etw haben/kriegen; he’s really hung up about things like that → wenn es darum geht, hat er einen richtigen Knacks weg (inf); to be hung up about being old/single etc → einen Komplex haben, weil man alt/nicht verheiratet etc ist; he’s hung up on her (inf) → er steht auf sie (sl)

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hung up

adj (fam) → complessato/a

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