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lash up

lash up verb: to construct in a shoddy, makeshift manner.

Verb

lash up (third-person singular simple present lashes up, present participle lashing up, simple past and past participle lashed up)

  1. (informal, transitive) To construct in a shoddy, makeshift manner.
    • Of things not properly belonging to the room, there was a hammock lashed up, and thrown upon the floor in one corner; […]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    jury-rig

lash up meaning in Tamil

lash up in Tamil

பதம்பார்ப்பு மாதிரி

Synonyms of lash up

Forms of lash up

third-person singular presentlashes up
present participlelashing up
past participlelashed up
pastlashed up

Words formed from lash up

Questions about lash up

What does lash up mean?
Lash up means to construct in a shoddy, makeshift manner.
What is lash up in Tamil?
Lash up in Tamil is பதம்பார்ப்பு மாதிரி. See Lash up meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lash up?
Lash up is a verb.
What is the past tense of lash up?
The past tense of lash up is lashed up.

Words near lash up in the dictionary

  1. lash lines
  2. lash off
  3. lash oneself to the mast
  4. lash out
  5. lash together
  6. lash up
  7. lash-curler
  8. lash-curlers
  9. lash-up
  10. lash-ups
  11. Lasha

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