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belled up

belled up is the simple past and past participle of bell up.

Meaning of bell up

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.

Questions about belled up

What is belled up the simple past and past participle of?
Belled up is the simple past and past participle of bell up.

Words near belled up in the dictionary

  1. belled
  2. belled buzzard
  3. belled buzzards
  4. belled out
  5. belled the cat
  6. belled up
  7. belledom
  8. belleek
  9. Belleek ware
  10. Belleek wares
  11. belleeks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: belled up (page history and authors); bell 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.

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