run up

• 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