hang up

hang up
 n.— «One New Year’s Eve nine years ago, four inmates told her they were going to “hang up”—jailspeak for committing suicide by hanging.» —“Nun helps inmates beat the holiday blues” by Bill Tuttle in Queens Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) Dec. 23, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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