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gun up

gun up verb: to gun the engine of a vehicle.

Verb

gun up (third-person singular simple present guns up, present participle gunning up, simple past and past participle gunned up)

  1. (intransitive) To gun the engine of a vehicle.
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To be armed with a gun or to arm with a gun.

Forms of gun up

third-person singular presentguns up
present participlegunning up
past participlegunned up
pastgunned up

Questions about gun up

What does gun up mean?
Gun up means to gun the engine of a vehicle.
What part of speech is gun up?
Gun up is a verb.
What is the past tense of gun up?
The past tense of gun up is gunned up.

Words near gun up in the dictionary

  1. gun stock
  2. gun stocks
  3. gun time
  4. gun times
  5. gun to your head
  6. gun up
  7. gun worm
  8. gun worms
  9. gun-barrel
  10. gun-barrels
  11. gun-brig

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