bowls up

Verb

bowl up (third-person singular simple present bowls up, present participle bowling up, simple past and past participle bowled up)

1. (informal, intransitive) To travel or arrive in a wheeled vehicle.
2. (informal, intransitive) To approach.
   • Thin the masther called out Dinny Moran, an' dhragged him up to one o' the Dublin young ladies, an' bid Dinny be stout an' ax her out to dance wid him. So Dinny, you see, though he was ashamed to make so free wid the lady, still he was afeard not to do as the masther bid him; so, by my conscience...1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 517
3. (idiomatic, intransitive) To pack the bowl of a pipe with smokable material.
   • When we bowled up, it was at the tail end of a weekend party. There was a lot of smoking going on, there was a little kid, about 12 years old, rapping for everyone; he was great.2016 June 8, John Doran, quoting Tom Sheehan, “Legendary Photographer Tom Sheehan Explains His Iconic Images”, in VICE, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2023
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bowl, up.
   • The five-foot-nine senior bowled up the middle for a 55-yard gain to set up a field goal and then scored off a one-yard plunge in a 10-point third quarter.2006 October 28, “CIS: Western and Queen’s score upsets in OUA playoffs”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2023