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Square up

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    to get ready for a fight
  2. 2
    make square wordnet
  3. 3
    to adopt a fighting stance

    "Samir Nasri was shown a second yellow card moments earlier after squaring up to Jamie Vardy, with the two players going forehead to forehead after exchanging insults."

  4. 4
    settle conclusively; come to terms wordnet
  5. 5
    to face (someone) in a contest
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  1. 6
    even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing wordnet
  2. 7
    to pay back money that is owed

    "Let me know how much my share in the activity is and I'll square up with you tomorrow."

  3. 8
    To mill (blocks, inserts, etc) into precisely square condition. transitive

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