run up

Meaning

Verb

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up.
2. To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
3. To approach (an event or point in time).
4. To take to a destination or before an authority.
5. To erect hastily, as a building.
6. To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
7. To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole.
8. To string up; to hang.
9. Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
10. To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.
11. To accumulate (a debt).
12. To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
13. To warm up and test an airplane before a flight.
14. (slang) To accumulate money, drugs, etc.

Noun

Alternative form of run-up