answers up
answers up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of answer up.
Meaning of answer up
Verb
answer up (third-person singular simple present answers up, present participle answering up, simple past and past participle answered up)
- To come forth with a prompt answer.
- "Answer up, Tom," but Tom didn't answer up. So he said it again, and Tom didn't answer up again; and come to look, there warn't anything there but the mule—Tom was gone.c. 1884, Mark Twain, “Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians”, in Walter Blair, editor, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians: And Other Unfinished Stories, published 2011, page 63
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- Answers up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of answer up.
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