Definitions from Wiktionary (run up)
▸ verb: To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
▸ verb: (with to) To approach (an event or point in time).
▸ verb: (transitive) To take to a destination or before an authority.
▸ verb: To erect hastily, as a building.
▸ verb: (idiomatic, transitive) To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
▸ verb: (idiomatic, transitive) To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole.
▸ verb: (transitive) To string up; to hang.
▸ verb: (cricket) Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
▸ verb: (intransitive, transitive) To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.
▸ verb: (idiomatic) To accumulate (a debt).
▸ verb: To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
▸ verb: (aviation, transitive) To warm up and test an airplane before a flight.
▸ verb: (African-American Vernacular, slang, sometimes reflexive) To accumulate money, drugs, etc.
▸ verb: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up.
▸ noun: Alternative form of run-up [(cricket) The approach run of a bowler before delivering the ball.]
run up against,
run up the flagpole,
to run up,
run something up the flagpole,
run up the score,
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▸ verb: To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
▸ verb: (with to) To approach (an event or point in time).
▸ verb: (transitive) To take to a destination or before an authority.
▸ verb: To erect hastily, as a building.
▸ verb: (idiomatic, transitive) To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
▸ verb: (idiomatic, transitive) To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole.
▸ verb: (transitive) To string up; to hang.
▸ verb: (cricket) Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
▸ verb: (intransitive, transitive) To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.
▸ verb: (idiomatic) To accumulate (a debt).
▸ verb: To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
▸ verb: (aviation, transitive) To warm up and test an airplane before a flight.
▸ verb: (African-American Vernacular, slang, sometimes reflexive) To accumulate money, drugs, etc.
▸ verb: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up.
▸ noun: Alternative form of run-up [(cricket) The approach run of a bowler before delivering the ball.]
Similar:
hoist,
chalk up,
sew,
stitch,
sew together,
run about,
go up,
run with,
run through,
run a train,
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flat out,
stay at home,
next level,
cut down,
close to the wind,
frontside,
far out,
each way,
every second,
up in the air,
caught stealing
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