hangup

plural hangups

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of hang-up.

   Adding their own hangups to the mix was easy and unexposing, says Norton.

   2026 July 3, Catherine Shoard, “‘I feel both thrilled and ruined by this’: Olivia Wilde and Edward Norton on making sex comedy The Invite”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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   One result of the sexual revolution was the spread of venereal disease to near-epidemic proportions. The clap was, as one writer put it, “one of the hangups of the new morality.”

   1991, Timothy Miller, The hippies and American values, University of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 63