1562–3 Jack Juggler in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) II. 151 You have cause now to thank this same hang-up.

1959 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 16 Apr. 2/6 Man—Omnibus salutation extended to men, women, domestic animals—saves cool cat hangup of remembering names.

1967 A. Diment Dolly Dolly Spy ii. 27 Hash..is non-narcotic but whether..it leads you on to the hang up drugs I don't know.

1967 Melody Maker 27 May 10/6 All these hang-ups are eliminated by the truth—this is a great record.

1967 Melody Maker 29 July 10/5 There are all sorts of hang-up noises going on in the background.

1967 Ottawa Jrnl. 31 May 39/2 Your husband's hang-up dates back to childhood and you must treat it as an illness, which it is most assuredly.

1967 Crescendo Dec. 27/4 He was always very kind and patient with me, as he was..with all people. A great degree of sensitivity to people's hang-ups, you know—he'd never put you on a spot.

1968 Melody Maker 22 June 2 The group didn't want the hang up of worrying about recording specific singles.

1968 Observer 22 Dec. 21/1 People have this hang-up about art. A woman will worry for days about spending money on a painting: is it a good investment, can she trust her own judgment? The same woman will spend £150 on a dress..without giving it a thought.

1973 Black World Apr. 17/1 Depressing piece about pushers, junkies, whores and their hang-ups.

1963 Communications ACM 6 155/3 Hang up, an unplanned computer stop or delay in problem solution, e.g. caused by the inability to escape from a loop.

1983 Your Computer Sept. 86/1 The hang-up occurred whenever the buffer was physically written to the disk.

2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 Nov. a15 (advt.) Increased memory lets you run more productivity-enhancing applications simultaneously while helping you avoid productivity-freezing system hang-ups.