- (British English) (of a parliament or council) in which no political party has more elected members than all the other parties added together
- a hung parliament
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- (of a jury) unable to agree about whether somebody is guilty of a crime
Idioms
See hung in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe hung up on/about somebody/something
- (informal, disapproving) to be very worried about somebody/something; to be thinking about somebody/something too much
- You're not still hung up on that girl?
- He's too hung up about fitness.
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