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Ring up

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To telephone; to call someone on the telephone. idiomatic, transitive

    "Malone at once rang up Lord Roxton, and soon heard the familiar voice."

  2. 2
    to perform and record a sale on a cash register wordnet
  3. 3
    To enter (a payment) into a cash register, or till in a shop, or record a credit- or debit-card payment. transitive

    "Just ring up these items first. You can ring up those separately."

  4. 4
    To record the payment of. transitive

    "I'll take these. You can ring me up."

  5. 5
    To make an adverse official decision concerning (a person). transitive

    "Munson appeared to have taken Billy's exhortation on aggressiveness to heart. Umpire Jim McKean rung him up on strikes at one point in the game, so Thurman bumped him in anger."

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  1. 6
    To rouse by the ringing of a bell.
  2. 7
    To strikeout a batter and thereby send him or her back to the dugout.

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