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gees up

gees up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gee up.

Meaning of gee up

Verb

gee up (third-person singular simple present gees up, present participle geeing up, simple past and past participle geed up)

  1. (slang) To encourage.
  2. (slang) To excite in order to try to achieve a desired result.
    • "US fund manager Eric Knight has a fearful reputation as a shareholder activist, geeing up underperforming managements at Royal Dutch Shell and Suez." – HSBC: activist pounces, The Week, 15 September 2007, 631, 43.

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What is gees up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Gees up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gee up.

Words near gees up in the dictionary

  1. Geertses
  2. Geertz
  3. Geertzian
  4. gees
  5. gees along
  6. gees up
  7. Geesaman
  8. Geesamans
  9. geese
  10. Geesey
  11. Geeseys

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