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lolly up

lolly up verb: to inform on.

Verb

lolly up (third-person singular simple present lollies up, present participle lollying up, simple past and past participle lollied up)

  1. (UK, slang) To inform on.
    • The bods who do it are grasses. They'll lolly you up as soon as look at you. […] The fucking bastards lollied me up for nicking the materials. I lost three days.2005, Noel Smith, Razor Smith, A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun
    • But some straight kid turned grass — he lollied me up, as they say — and I was asked to leave the premises.2011, Richard T. Kelly, Alan Clarke

Forms of lolly up

third-person singular presentlollies up
present participlelollying up
past participlelollied up
pastlollied up

Origin of lolly up

Rhyming slang, from lollipop, to rhyme with shop (“to report to the authorities”).

Questions about lolly up

What does lolly up mean?
Lolly up means to inform on.
What part of speech is lolly up?
Lolly up is a verb.
What is the past tense of lolly up?
The past tense of lolly up is lollied up.

Words near lolly up in the dictionary

  1. lolly ices
  2. lolly pop
  3. lolly pops
  4. lolly scramble
  5. lolly scrambles
  6. lolly up
  7. lolly-pop
  8. lolly-pops
  9. lollycake
  10. lollygag
  11. lollygagged

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