Run up

noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of run-up. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.

    "As I was walking along the road, a man suddenly ran up to me."

  2. 2
    pile up (debts or scores) wordnet
  3. 3
    To approach (an event or point in time).

    "We are putting on lots of special attractions as we run up to Christmas."

  4. 4
    fasten by sewing; do needlework wordnet
  5. 5
    To take to a destination or before an authority. transitive

    "[…] and I took him along and ran him up to police headquarters."

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  1. 6
    raise by using ropes and pulleys wordnet
  2. 7
    To erect hastily, as a building. dated

    "we wait until the palace is half-way up, and then we pay some tasty architect to run us up an ornamental mud hovel, right against it"

  3. 8
    make by sewing together quickly wordnet
  4. 9
    To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly. idiomatic, transitive

    "I'll run you up a skirt for tomorrow evening."

  5. 10
    accumulate, sometimes as a debt wordnet
  6. 11
    To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole. idiomatic, transitive

    "Stand quietly while the honor guard runs the flag up."

  7. 12
    To string up; to hang. transitive
  8. 13
    Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.

    "He runs up... and bowls. Smashed away for four runs!"

  9. 14
    To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase. intransitive, transitive

    "Accounts of goods credited run up very fast."

  10. 15
    To accumulate (a debt). idiomatic

    "He ran up over $5,000 in unpaid bills."

  11. 16
    To thrust up, as anything long and slender.

    "The fence runs up along the edge of the pasture."

  12. 17
    To warm up and test an airplane before a flight. transitive
  13. 18
    To accumulate money, drugs, etc. reflexive, slang, sometimes

    "I run me up some big bills."

  14. 19
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up.

    "The small boy ran up the hill."

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