Sekirov Dictionary

run up

verb13

  1. To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
  2. To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.
  3. To accumulate (a debt).
  4. [with oneself] (slang) To accumulate money, drugs, etc.
  5. Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
  6. To approach (an event or point in time).
  7. To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
  8. (old-fashioned) To erect hastily, as a building.
  9. To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole.
  10. To warm up and test an airplane before a flight.
  11. To take to a destination or before an authority.
  12. To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
  13. To string up; to hang.

run-up noun6

  1. The approach run of a bowler before delivering the ball.
  2. A period of time just before an important event.
  3. An increase in the value or amount of something.
  4. The approach run of a high jumper or other athlete in order to gather speed or momentum.
  5. The extent of a wave's reach onto land as the result of a tsunami or storm such as a cyclone.
  6. The process of warming up and testing an airplane before a flight.
forms

ran up · running up · runs up · run ups · run-ups

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