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hang-up
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hang-up
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I want the children to understand sex and grow up without any hang-ups.
▪ Richards had a few technical hang-ups bringing the script to the screen.
▪ Sarah has a hang-up about her nose -- she thinks it's too big.
▪ They're just ordinary people with all the usual hang-ups about love.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Deborah has a very good self-image and no particular hang-ups about her body.
▪ He's a very attractive man who looks younger than his age so why the hang-up?
▪ In future, all movie gays will be law-abiding citizens with healthy relationships, no repressive hang-ups, and a glitter-free wardrobe.
▪ Now I was stuck on my northernmost hang-up.
▪ Parents are largely responsible for providing the right environment so that their children grow up happy, balanced and free from hang-ups.
▪ There are still, however, some hang-ups in this production.
▪ You think people here have a hang-up about Thumper?
Wiktionary
hang-up

n. 1 an emotional difficulty or a psychological inhibition; a complex 2 an unforeseen obstacle to progress; a hitch

WordNet
hang-up

  1. n. an emotional preoccupation

  2. an unforeseen obstacle [syn: hitch, rub, snag]

Usage examples of "hang-up".

Four days of messages played back one by one, interspersed with a number of hang-ups.

Mainstream novels, of course, do not lack flaws, as they too often concentrate on representa tional confessionalism, replete with sexual aberrations or psychological hang-ups.

Preferably fourth-rate garbage, a psychopath with a hang-up so heavy he goes after someone up here.

That I had a lot of things on my mind like a five-mil­lion-dollar movie, plus all the usual guilts and hang-ups of a conditioned twentieth-century American male who had led a square life.

Typically he was a man of action, yet all he could do was hope that she missed him enough to get past her insecurities and hang-ups and give them a chance at a future.

In fact, straight human people seemed somewhat inadequate, with their small physiques and lack of wings, not to mention their limited intellects and hang-ups about natural functions.