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drills up

drills up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of drill up.

Meaning of drill up

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?

Questions about drills up

What is drills up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Drills up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of drill up.

Words near drills up in the dictionary

  1. drills
  2. drills down
  3. drills in
  4. drills out
  5. drills through
  6. drills up
  7. drillship
  8. drillships
  9. drillstock
  10. drillstocks
  11. drillstring

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