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Run up
noun, verb, slang
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Noun
- 1 Alternative form of run-up. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Verb
- 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 pile up (debts or scores) wordnet
- 3 To approach (an event or point in time).
"We are putting on lots of special attractions as we run up to Christmas."
- 4 fasten by sewing; do needlework wordnet
- 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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- 6 raise by using ropes and pulleys wordnet
- 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"
- 8 make by sewing together quickly wordnet
- 9 To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly. idiomatic, transitive
"I'll run you up a skirt for tomorrow evening."
- 10 accumulate, sometimes as a debt wordnet
- 11 To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole. idiomatic, transitive
"Stand quietly while the honor guard runs the flag up."
- 12 To string up; to hang. transitive
- 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!"
- 14 To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase. intransitive, transitive
"Accounts of goods credited run up very fast."
- 15 To accumulate (a debt). idiomatic
"He ran up over $5,000 in unpaid bills."
- 16 To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
"The fence runs up along the edge of the pasture."
- 17 To warm up and test an airplane before a flight. transitive
- 18 To accumulate money, drugs, etc. reflexive, slang, sometimes
"I run me up some big bills."
- 19 Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up.
"The small boy ran up the hill."
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