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lashes up

lashes up is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 lashes up

What is lashes up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lashes up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lash up.

Words near lashes up in the dictionary

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

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