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hang up

(TELEPHONE)

Definition

to end a telephone conversation by ending the connection: Don’t hang up – there’s something else I want to say. She hung up on me (= suddenly ended the connection between us) in the middle of a sentence.
(Definition of hang up (TELEPHONE) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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