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head up

head up verb: to lead or take the lead in; to direct; to take charge of.

Verb

head up (third-person singular simple present heads up, present participle heading up, simple past and past participle headed up)

  1. (transitive) To lead or take the lead in; to direct; to take charge of.
    • We want you to head up the effort to organize all the entries.
    • April 19 2002, Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightvillehttp://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/
      The gym’s proprietor, “Crazy” Tim Credeur, heads up the Gladiator Academy, which serves as a pipeline for amateur MMA fighters to move up the ranks, though few of them do.
  2. (transitive) To close (a cask, barrel, etc.) by fitting a head to it.
  3. To turn towards the wind

head up meaning in Tamil

head up in Tamil

கசிவுதடுப்பு மரையிறுக்கம்

Forms of head up

third-person singular presentheads up
present participleheading up
past participleheaded up
pastheaded up

Questions about head up

What does head up mean?
Head up means to lead or take the lead in; to direct; to take charge of.
What is head up in Tamil?
Head up in Tamil is கசிவுதடுப்பு மரையிறுக்கம். See Head up meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is head up?
Head up is a verb.
What is the past tense of head up?
The past tense of head up is headed up.

Words near head up in the dictionary

  1. head trips
  2. head tube
  3. head tubes
  4. head unit
  5. head units
  6. head up
  7. head valve
  8. head valves
  9. head voice
  10. head voices
  11. head wall

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Adapted from Wiktionary: head up (page history and authors); head up (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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