run up
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run up
verb runs up · running up · ran up · run up
- 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.
- To approach (an event or point in time). We are putting on lots of special attractions as we run up to Christmas.
- To take to a destination or before an authority. […] and I took him along and ran him up to police headquarters.
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To erect hastily, as a building.
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
Similar: throw up, knock up, knock together, slap together
- To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly. I'll run you up a skirt for tomorrow evening.
- To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole. Stand quietly while the honor guard runs the flag up.
- To string up; to hang.
- 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!
- To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase. Accounts of goods credited run up very fast.
- To accumulate (a debt). He ran up over $5,000 in unpaid bills.
- To thrust up, as anything long and slender. The fence runs up along the edge of the pasture.
- To warm up and test an airplane before a flight.
- To accumulate money, drugs, etc. I run me up some big bills.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up. The small boy ran up the hill.
noun run ups
- Alternative form of run-up
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verb to erect hastily
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