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marry up

verb marries up · marrying up · married up

  1. transitive To join together.
  2. intransitive To tally or correspond; to match up.
  3. intransitive To marry someone of a higher social class. But as Meghan and Marin know, whether you married up or tried to have some downtime, if you’re a woman trying to live her life, the world will find a way to make you pay.

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verb to marry someone of a higher class

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@misc{marry_up_2026,
  title = {marry up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/marry%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}