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chest up

chest up verb: to bump one's chest into (another person) aggressively; to physically challenge or confront.

Verb

chest up (third-person singular simple present chests up, present participle chesting up, simple past and past participle chested up)

  1. (informal, transitive) To bump one's chest into (another person) aggressively; to physically challenge or confront.

Forms of chest up

third-person singular presentchests up
present participlechesting up
past participlechested up
pastchested up

Questions about chest up

What does chest up mean?
Chest up means to bump one's chest into (another person) aggressively; to physically challenge or confront.
What part of speech is chest up?
Chest up is a verb.
What is the past tense of chest up?
The past tense of chest up is chested up.

Words near chest up in the dictionary

  1. chest surgeries
  2. chest surgery
  3. chest tightness
  4. chest tube
  5. chest tubes
  6. chest up
  7. chest voice
  8. chest wall
  9. chest walls
  10. chest-beating
  11. chest-bump

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