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handles up

handles up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of handle up.

Meaning of handle up

Verb

handle up (third-person singular simple present handles up, present participle handling up, simple past and past participle handled up)

  1. (slang, African-American Vernacular) To take care of business; to get on with doing something.

Questions about handles up

What is handles up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Handles up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of handle up.

Words near handles up in the dictionary

  1. handlelessness
  2. handler
  3. handlers
  4. handles
  5. handles oneself
  6. handles up
  7. handles with kid gloves
  8. handles without gloves
  9. handles without mittens
  10. handlesome
  11. handless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: handles up (page history and authors); handle 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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