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heeling up

heeling up is the present participle and gerund of heel up.

Meaning of heel up

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.

Questions about heeling up

What is heeling up the present participle and gerund of?
Heeling up is the present participle and gerund of heel up.

Words near heeling up in the dictionary

  1. heelie
  2. heelies
  3. heeling
  4. heeling out
  5. heeling over
  6. heeling up
  7. heelings
  8. heelish
  9. heelless
  10. heellessness
  11. heelmaker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heeling up (page history and authors); heel 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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