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buffered up

buffered up is the simple past and past participle of buffer up.

Meaning of buffer up

Verb

buffer up (third-person singular simple present buffers up, present participle buffering up, simple past and past participle buffered up)

  1. (transitive) To move (a rail vehicle) so that its buffers are touching the buffers of another rail vehicle.
    • The Type 3 will propel the unit on the return working to Bournemouth Central, where it will be buffered up to the remaining units for the journey back to Waterloo.1964 November, “The Electrification of BR: 5 The Southern's Bournemouth scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 321

Questions about buffered up

What is buffered up the simple past and past participle of?
Buffered up is the simple past and past participle of buffer up.

Words near buffered up in the dictionary

  1. bufferbeams
  2. bufferbloat
  3. bufferbloats
  4. bufferdom
  5. buffered
  6. buffered up
  7. bufferedness
  8. bufferful
  9. bufferfuls
  10. bufferhead
  11. bufferheads

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