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heel up

heel up verb: to arm with a firearm.

Verb

heel up (third-person singular simple present heels up, present participle heeling up, simple past and past participle heeled up)

  1. (dated, slang) To arm with a firearm.

Forms of heel up

third-person singular presentheels up
present participleheeling up
past participleheeled up
pastheeled up

Questions about heel up

What does heel up mean?
Heel up means to arm with a firearm.
What part of speech is heel up?
Heel up is a verb.
What is the past tense of heel up?
The past tense of heel up is heeled up.

Words near heel up in the dictionary

  1. Heel Stone
  2. heel strike
  3. heel strikes
  4. heel turn
  5. heel turns
  6. heel up
  7. heel'd
  8. heel-and-toe
  9. heel-dragger
  10. heel-draggers
  11. heel-face turn

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