Hangup

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of hang-up. alt-of, alternative

    "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.”"

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mania

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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.”"

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