Usually means: Persistent emotional or psychological obstacle.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word hang-up:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. hang-up: Merriam-Webster
  2. hang-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hang-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hang-up, hang-up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hang-up: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hang-Up, Hang-up, hang-up: Wordnik
  7. hang-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hang-up: Wiktionary
  9. hang-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hang-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hang-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hang-up: Dictionary.com
  13. hang-up: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. hang-up: Rhymezone
  15. hang-up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. hang-up: FreeDictionary.org
  17. hang-up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. hang-up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hang-up: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hang-up, hang-up, hang-up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hang-up: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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noun:  (informal) An emotional difficulty or a psychological inhibition.
noun:  An unforeseen obstacle to progress; a hitch or delay.

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