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colour up

colour up is the alternative form 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.

Forms of colour up

third-person singular presentcolours up
present participlecolouring up
past participlecoloured up
pastcoloured up
alternative formcolor up

Questions about colour up

What is colour up the alternative form of?
Colour up is the alternative form of color up.

Words near colour up in the dictionary

  1. colour televisions
  2. colour triangle
  3. colour triangles
  4. colour TV
  5. colour TVs
  6. colour up
  7. colour wash
  8. colour wheel
  9. colour wheels
  10. colour'd
  11. colour-blind

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colour up (page history and authors); color up (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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