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meet up

meet up verb: to come together with (someone), often at a prearranged time and/or location.

Verb

meet up (third-person singular simple present meets up, present participle meeting up, simple past and past participle met up)

  1. (intransitive) To come together with (someone), often at a prearranged time and/or location.
    • The next time you come to my town, we should meet up somewhere.
  2. (colloquial, transitive) To meet (a person) by arrangement.
    • Amy told me that she's gonna meet me up2008, Britney Spears, “If U Seek Amy”
    • They’re gonna be gone all day and we’re gonna meet them up for dinner at Roussos tonight.2016, TJ Beitelman, “Ruin”, in Communion: Stories, [New York, N.Y.?]: Black Lawrence Press, →ISBN, page 103

Forms of meet up

third-person singular presentmeets up
present participlemeeting up
past participlemet up
pastmet up

Questions about meet up

What does meet up mean?
Meet up means to come together with (someone), often at a prearranged time and/or location.
What part of speech is meet up?
Meet up is a verb.
What is the past tense of meet up?
The past tense of meet up is met up.

Words near meet up in the dictionary

  1. meet one's maker
  2. meet one's match
  3. meet one's Waterloo
  4. meet someone where they are
  5. meet the new boss, same as the old boss
  6. meet up
  7. meet with
  8. meet-and-greet
  9. meet-and-greets
  10. meet-cute
  11. meet-cutes

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