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badge up

badge up verb: to earn a badge (such as by becoming a police officer).

Verb

badge up (third-person singular simple present badges up, present participle badging up, simple past and past participle badged up)

  1. (transitive) To earn a badge (such as by becoming a police officer).
  2. (intransitive) To wear a badge as a marker of identity.
  3. (intransitive) To acquire, bring or wield a badge to use as a marker of identity.
  4. (transitive) To attach badge(s) to (something).
  5. (transitive) To market products with figurative "badges", such as to claim product quality or popularity.

Forms of badge up

third-person singular presentbadges up
present participlebadging up
past participlebadged up
pastbadged up

Questions about badge up

What does badge up mean?
Badge up means to earn a badge (such as by becoming a police officer).
What part of speech is badge up?
Badge up is a verb.
What is the past tense of badge up?
The past tense of badge up is badged up.

Words near badge up in the dictionary

  1. badge of honor
  2. badge of honour
  3. badge of merit
  4. badge of shame
  5. badge out
  6. badge up
  7. badge-cove
  8. badge-coves
  9. badged
  10. badged in
  11. badged out

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