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drill up

drill up verb: to replace data with data from one level higher or less specific.

Verb

drill up (third-person singular simple present drills up, present participle drilling up, simple past and past participle drilled up)

  1. (intransitive) To replace data with data from one level higher or less specific.
    • I've got product sales data, but I want to drill up to product-category sales data.
  2. (slang, transitive, African-American Vernacular) To kill (someone).
    • Where were you when they were trying to drill me up?

Forms of drill up

third-person singular presentdrills up
present participledrilling up
past participledrilled up
pastdrilled up

Questions about drill up

What does drill up mean?
Drill up means to replace data with data from one level higher or less specific.
What part of speech is drill up?
Drill up is a verb.
What is the past tense of drill up?
The past tense of drill up is drilled up.

Words near drill up in the dictionary

  1. drill sergeant
  2. drill sergeants
  3. drill string
  4. drill strings
  5. drill through
  6. drill up
  7. drilla
  8. drillabilities
  9. drillability
  10. drillable
  11. drillas

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