Lexic.us

Definition of Run up

1. Verb. Pile up (debts or scores).

2. Verb. Raise. "Hoist a sail"

3. Verb. Fasten by sewing; do needlework. "They run up the cape "

4. Verb. Accumulate as a debt. ; "He chalked up $100 in the course of the evening"

5. Verb. Make by sewing together quickly. "They run up the cape "; "Run up a skirt"

Definition of Run up

1. Verb. (cricket) of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic) To bring a flag to the top of its flag pole ¹

3. Verb. (idiomatic) To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly ¹

4. Verb. (idiomatic) To accumulate a debt ¹

5. Noun. (cricket) the action of running up; the area of the pitch used by the bowler to run up, the start of which he marks with a small marker ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Run Up

run scared run short run somebody ragged run someone through run something by run something past run something up the flagpole run tee run the clock down run the gamut

run the gauntlet run through run time run times run to run up (current term) run up against run up the score run wild run with

run with scissors run with the hare and hunt with the hounds run year run years runabout runabouts runagate runagates runaround runarounds

Literary usage of Run up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Physical Geography of the Sea by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1855)
"Some Currents run up bill, 237.—Currents of the Red Sea, 238.—Top of that Sea an inclined Plane, 240.—How an under Current from it is generated, 245. ..."

2. The Physical Geography of the Sea by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1855)
"Some Currents run up hill, 237.—Currents of the Red Sea, 238.—Top of that Sea an inclined Plane, 240.—How an under Current from it is generated, 245. ..."

3. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"Meanwhile, ' the duty nearest hand ' is to get on the stair- carpet that he may run up and down more softly. LETTER 58. From the Dunbar expedition I seem to ..."

4. The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (1887)
"... taken to delude him into the notion that he is a lord will not make him essentially other than ' Old Sly's son, of Burton Heath,' who has run up so long ..."

5. The Physical Geography of the Sea by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1855)
"Some Currents run up bill, 237.—Currents of the Red Sea, 238.—Top of that Sea an inclined Plane, 240.—How an under Current from it is generated, 245. ..."

6. The Physical Geography of the Sea by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1855)
"Some Currents run up hill, 237.—Currents of the Red Sea, 238.—Top of that Sea an inclined Plane, 240.—How an under Current from it is generated, 245. ..."

7. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"Meanwhile, ' the duty nearest hand ' is to get on the stair- carpet that he may run up and down more softly. LETTER 58. From the Dunbar expedition I seem to ..."

8. The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (1887)
"... taken to delude him into the notion that he is a lord will not make him essentially other than ' Old Sly's son, of Burton Heath,' who has run up so long ..."

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