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laced up

laced up is the simple past and past participle of lace up.

Meaning of lace up

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

Questions about laced up

What is laced up the simple past and past participle of?
Laced up is the simple past and past participle of lace up.

Words near laced up in the dictionary

  1. laced into
  2. laced moray
  3. laced morays
  4. laced mutton
  5. laced muttons
  6. laced up
  7. laced-up
  8. Lacedaemon
  9. Lacedaemonian
  10. Lacedaemonians
  11. Lacedemonian

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