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colors up

colors up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of color up.

Meaning of color up

Verb

color up (third-person singular simple present colors up, present participle coloring up, simple past and past participle colored up)

  1. To blush (to go red).
    • Alice had already begun to colour up and was beginning to speak, when her Ladyship perceiving her displeasure, continued thus.1790, Jane Austen, “Jack and Alice”, in Juvenilia
  2. To exchange a high number of low-value chips (of one color) for a lower number of higher value (of a different color), but keeping the same overall value.

Questions about colors up

What is colors up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Colors up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of color up.

Words near colors up in the dictionary

  1. colors
  2. colors by number
  3. colors in
  4. colors inside the lines
  5. colors outside the lines
  6. colors up
  7. colorscrew
  8. colorscrews
  9. colorsome
  10. colorspace
  11. colorspaces

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