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"hang up" Definition

  1. to rob with violence, to garrotte. Most likely from throttling associations in connexion with the practice of garrotting.

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Position in the dictionary: 1595 of 4022 slang words.
Next words in the dictionary: hanging, hangman’s wages, hannah, hansel, happy-go-lucky, haramzadeh, hard lines, hard mouthed un, hard tack, hard-up
Previous words in the dictionary: hang out, handseller, handling, handle, handicap, hander, hand-saw, hand-me-downs, hand, hall

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