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listening up

listening up is the present participle and gerund 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 listening up

What is listening up the present participle and gerund of?
Listening up is the present participle and gerund of listen up.

Words near listening up in the dictionary

  1. listening out
  2. listening post
  3. listening posts
  4. listening station
  5. listening stations
  6. listening up
  7. listening watch
  8. listening watches
  9. listening with half an ear
  10. listenings
  11. listens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: listening 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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