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lashed up

lashed up is the simple past and past participle of lash up.

Meaning of lash up

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

Questions about lashed up

What is lashed up the simple past and past participle of?
Lashed up is the simple past and past participle of lash up.

Words near lashed up in the dictionary

  1. lashed down
  2. lashed off
  3. lashed oneself to the mast
  4. lashed out
  5. lashed together
  6. lashed up
  7. lasher
  8. lashers
  9. lashes
  10. lashes back
  11. lashes down

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