Word.ws English Dictionary

arms up

arms up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of arm up.

Meaning of arm up

Verb

arm up (third-person singular simple present arms up, present participle arming up, simple past and past participle armed up)

  1. (ambitransitive, idiomatic) to supply, or be supplied with, arms (weapons)

Questions about arms up

What is arms up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Arms up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of arm up.

Words near arms up in the dictionary

  1. arms race
  2. arms races
  3. arms the lead
  4. arms to the teeth
  5. arms trafficking
  6. arms up
  7. arms-bearer
  8. arms-bearers
  9. armsaye
  10. armsayes
  11. armsbearer

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: arms up (page history and authors); arm up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “arms up.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/arms_up. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.