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beam up

beam up verb: to teleport (someone or something) using a (fictional) device, especially from the surface of a planet to an orbiting starship.

Verb

beam up (third-person singular simple present beams up, present participle beaming up, simple past and past participle beamed up)

  1. (transitive) To teleport (someone or something) using a (fictional) device, especially from the surface of a planet to an orbiting starship.
  2. (intransitive) To be teleported, or to teleport oneself, in this manner.
  3. (intransitive) To appear suddenly, as if by teleport.
  4. (slang) To get high on drugs, especially crack cocaine.
    • Pookie: "They call it the "Enterprise Room", man, because it's for people who wanna be beamed up to Scotty."1991, New Jack City
    • Crack cocaine done gave straight-up pimping a nosebleed in the ghetto. 'Specially when crack hoes be trickin for two or three dollars, just to get enough to beam up, how you gon charge a John a hundred or two hundred bucks?2004, Teddy Hayes, Blood Red Blues, →ISBN, page 75

beam up meaning in Bengali

beam up in Bengali

এই পদ্ধতিতে টেলিপোর্ট হওয়া, বা নিজেকে টেলিপোর্ট করা, হঠাৎ উপস্থিত হওয়া, যেন টেলিপোর্টের মাধ্যমে

Forms of beam up

third-person singular presentbeams up
present participlebeaming up
past participlebeamed up
pastbeamed up

Origin of beam up

From the Star Trek franchise.

Questions about beam up

What does beam up mean?
Beam up means to teleport (someone or something) using a (fictional) device, especially from the surface of a planet to an orbiting starship.
What is beam up in Bengali?
Beam up in Bengali is এই পদ্ধতিতে টেলিপোর্ট হওয়া, বা নিজেকে টেলিপোর্ট করা, হঠাৎ উপস্থিত হওয়া. See Beam up meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is beam up?
Beam up is a verb.
What is the past tense of beam up?
The past tense of beam up is beamed up.

Words near beam up in the dictionary

  1. beam steering
  2. beam steerings
  3. beam tracing
  4. beam tree
  5. beam trees
  6. beam up
  7. beam-ends
  8. beam-on
  9. beam-steering
  10. beamable
  11. beamage

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