hang up

verb

1. To put up to hang.

   “I hung up my wash on the line.”

2. To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line.

   “When my mother started telling me to be careful over the phone, I threatened to hang up on her.”

   “And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me He'd grown up just like me My boy was just like me.”

3. To stop talking.
4. To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.
5. To rob or mug (someone).
6. To arrest (someone); to send (someone) to prison.

   “So call up Trudy on the telephone / Send her a letter in the mail / Tell her I'm hung up in Dallas / They won't let me out of this jail”

7. To quit (something); to give up or stop doing (something); to abandon (something).

   “He hung up the flute after college.”

   “I think it's time to hang it up.”

8. To distress, disadvantage or harm (someone).