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collar up

collar up verb: to apply a harness to a horse.

Verb

collar up (third-person singular simple present collars up, present participle collaring up, simple past and past participle collared up)

  1. (transitive) To apply a harness to a horse.
  2. (transitive) To put a collar on a dog (a band or chain around an animal's neck).
  3. (intransitive, e.g., a drill) To build up a lip or collar around a hole.
  4. (intransitive) To raise the collar on a shirt or jacket (the part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat).
  5. (intransitive) To engage in a collar trade (taking equal but opposite positions in a put and a call with different strike prices).
  6. (intransitive, transitive) To arrest (someone); to arrest one or more people.

Forms of collar up

third-person singular presentcollars up
present participlecollaring up
past participlecollared up
pastcollared up

Questions about collar up

What does collar up mean?
Collar up means to apply a harness to a horse.
What part of speech is collar up?
Collar up is a verb.
What is the past tense of collar up?
The past tense of collar up is collared up.

Words near collar up in the dictionary

  1. collar stud abscesses
  2. collar studs
  3. collar tab
  4. collar tabs
  5. collar the bowling
  6. collar up
  7. collar-bone
  8. collar-bones
  9. collar-button
  10. collar-button abscess
  11. collar-button abscesses

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