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bell up

bell up verb: to make a phone call.

Verb

bell up (third-person singular simple present bells up, present participle belling up, simple past and past participle belled up)

  1. (UK, slang) To make a phone call.
    • He belled me up last week.
  2. (intransitive, usually) To form the shape of a bell.
    • The smoke belled up toward the horizon.

Forms of bell up

third-person singular presentbells up
present participlebelling up
past participlebelled up
pastbelled up

Questions about bell up

What does bell up mean?
Bell up means to make a phone call.
What part of speech is bell up?
Bell up is a verb.
What is the past tense of bell up?
The past tense of bell up is belled up.

Words near bell up in the dictionary

  1. bell trap
  2. bell traps
  3. bell tree
  4. bell trees
  5. bell turret
  6. bell up
  7. bell work
  8. Bell's palsy
  9. Bell's sparrow
  10. Bell's sparrows
  11. Bell's theorem

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