run up
Meaning
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- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up.
- To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
- To approach (an event or point in time).
- To take to a destination or before an authority.
- To erect hastily, as a building.
- To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
- To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole.
- To string up; to hang.
- Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
- To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.
- To accumulate (a debt).
- To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
- To warm up and test an airplane before a flight.
- (slang) To accumulate money, drugs, etc.
Synonyms
hoist up
sew together
add to
come running
enhance
tack together
toss in
rush up
tack on
run near
go up quickly
power-test
boost up
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