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cobble up

cobble up verb: to hastily construct (something).

Verb

cobble up (third-person singular simple present cobbles up, present participle cobbling up, simple past and past participle cobbled up)

  1. (transitive) To hastily construct (something).

Forms of cobble up

third-person singular presentcobbles up
present participlecobbling up
past participlecobbled up
pastcobbled up

Questions about cobble up

What does cobble up mean?
Cobble up means to hastily construct (something).
What part of speech is cobble up?
Cobble up is a verb.
What is the past tense of cobble up?
The past tense of cobble up is cobbled up.

Words near cobble up in the dictionary

  1. cobbings
  2. Cobbinshaw
  3. Cobbitty
  4. cobble
  5. cobble together
  6. cobble up
  7. cobble-stone
  8. cobble-stones
  9. Cobblebank
  10. cobbled
  11. cobbled together

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