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lace up

lace up verb: to fasten the laces of something.

Verb

lace up (third-person singular simple present laces up, present participle lacing up, simple past and past participle laced up)

  1. (transitive) To fasten the laces of something.
    • However, with their first genuine attack, Sunderland scored - and they did it with Tottenham needlessly down to 10 men as Gallas laced up a replacement pair of boots.2011 February 12, Oliver Brett, “Sunderland 1 - 2 Tottenham”, in BBC
  2. (transitive) To insert (film) into a projector.
    • If the film arrived with minute to go, there would still be time for the technicians to lace it up […]2015, David Lloyd, Start the Clock and Cue the Band: A Life in Television
    • 'Well,' said Ron, 'let's lace it up on the projector anyway, we might see something.'2016, Nicholas Lee, All This in 60 Minutes, page 26

Antonyms of lace up

Forms of lace up

third-person singular presentlaces up
present participlelacing up
past participlelaced up
pastlaced up

Questions about lace up

What does lace up mean?
Lace up means to fasten the laces of something.
What part of speech is lace up?
Lace up is a verb.
What is the past tense of lace up?
The past tense of lace up is laced up.

Words near lace up in the dictionary

  1. lace papers
  2. lace piece
  3. lace pieces
  4. lace pillow
  5. lace pillows
  6. lace up
  7. lace-curtain
  8. lace-leaf
  9. lace-leafs
  10. lace-leaves
  11. lace-up

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