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hang up
verb- when combined with an article symbolic of a trade, profession or sport, to retire from that field of endeavour UK, 1833
“Hang up your fiddle”, which carries the generalised sense of retiring, is first recorded in 1833; however the current wide use may well owe its generation to Western films, particularly the cliché of an aged or disabled gun-fighter hanging up his guns. Of modern variations “Hang up (one’s) tits” is recorded of a retiring female impersonator in 1984. In 2003 a brief search of contemporary sources reveals a hairdresser hanging up his scissors, a judge hanging up the wig and robe, a Malayan who has hung up his Kalashnikov, a chef who hangs up his toque and white jacket, and a war correspondent who has hung up her flak jacket; jockeys hang up their silks, boxers hang up their gloves, sumo wrestlers hang up their loincloths, etc. - Michael Flatley may have hung up his dancing shoes, but the Irish dance phenomenon is still clackety-clacking its way unchecked around the globe[.] — The Guardian, 25 September 1999
- Experts wonder if Lindros should hang up the skates. — Canadian Press, 14 March 2000
- It’s four years since Eric Cantona hung up his boots and went into movies. — The Observer, 6 May 2001
- Gretzky’s younger brother wonders whether it’s time to hang up the skates — because he and his wife are raising three young children, and have had enough of moving from city to city. — espn.go.com, 5 April 2002
- Sebastian Coe, now Lord Coe, was elected as a Conservative MP after he hung up his spikes[.] — The Guardian, 4 February 2003
- in a prayer group, to pray last US
If “to pray first” is to DIAL- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 3, November 1990
▶ hang up a shingle
to go into business for yourself US- You hang up a shingle. I know some people who will throw work your way. — Stephen Cannell, King Con, p. 90, 1997
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