ring up

verb6

1. •
   To telephone; to call someone on the telephone.

   • Malone at once rang up Lord Roxton, and soon heard the familiar voice. — 1925
2. •
   To enter (a payment) into a cash register, or till in a shop, or record a credit- or debit-card payment.

   • Just ring up these items first. You can ring up those separately.
3. •
   To record the payment of.

   • I'll take these. You can ring me up.
   • The cashier took a long time to ring him up.
4. •
   To make an adverse official decision concerning (a person).

   • Munson appeared to have taken Billy's exhortation on aggressiveness to heart. Umpire Jim McKean rung him up on strikes at one point in the game, so Thurman bumped him in anger. — 2001
5. •
   To strikeout a batter and thereby send him or her back to the dugout.
6. •
   To rouse by the ringing of a bell.