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Meaning
Verb
●
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.
●
In Cricket:
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.
Noun
●
Alternative form of run-up
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