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listened up

listened up is the simple past and past participle of listen up.

Meaning of listen up

Verb

listen up (third-person singular simple present listens up, present participle listening up, simple past and past participle listened up)

  1. (idiomatic, imperative, informal, often, potentially derogatory) To listen closely; to pay attention.
    • I'm only gonna say this once, so you really need to listen up.

Questions about listened up

What is listened up the simple past and past participle of?
Listened up is the simple past and past participle of listen up.

Words near listened up in the dictionary

  1. listenable
  2. listened
  3. listened after
  4. listened in
  5. listened out
  6. listened up
  7. listened with half an ear
  8. listenedst
  9. listener
  10. listener fatigue
  11. listeners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: listened up (page history and authors); listen up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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