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chin up

/t͡ʃɪˈnʌp/

chin up phrase: be happy; cheer up.

Phrase

chin up

  1. (colloquial) Be happy; cheer up.
    • Chin up: it’s your birthday.

Verb

chin up (third-person singular simple present chins up, present participle chinning up, simple past and past participle chinned up)

  1. (intransitive) To face a situation cheerfully or with confidence.
    • You'll have to chin up to get through this.

chin up meaning in Bengali and Persian

chin up in Bengali

সুখী হও, মন ভালো করো

chin up in Persian

cheer up
خوشحال باش

Forms of chin up

third-person singular presentchins up
present participlechinning up
past participlechinned up
pastchinned up

Origin of chin up

Ellipsis of keep one's chin up.

Questions about chin up

What does chin up mean?
Chin up means be happy; cheer up.
What is chin up in Bengali?
Chin up in Bengali is সুখী হও, মন ভালো করো. See Chin up meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is chin up?
Chin up can be a phrase or a verb.
How do you pronounce chin up?
Chin up is pronounced /t͡ʃɪˈnʌp/.

Words near chin up in the dictionary

  1. chin shield
  2. chin shields
  3. Chin State
  4. chin strip
  5. chin strips
  6. chin up
  7. chin wag
  8. chin wags
  9. chin whelk
  10. Chin-ch'eng
  11. Chin-ch'uan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chin up (page history and authors); chin up (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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