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pad up

pad up verb: to put on batting pads preparatory to taking the field to bat.

Verb

pad up (third-person singular simple present pads up, present participle padding up, simple past and past participle padded up)

  1. (intransitive) To put on batting pads preparatory to taking the field to bat.
    • Normally only one batsman is padded up and Dean Jones was listed to bat next.1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 201
  2. (intransitive) To put on pads to ready oneself to play American football; to play for a team.
    • He padded up for the Bears in 1997.
  3. (intransitive, slang) To put on a diaper.

Forms of pad up

third-person singular presentpads up
present participlepadding up
past participlepadded up
pastpadded up

Questions about pad up

What does pad up mean?
Pad up means to put on batting pads preparatory to taking the field to bat.
What part of speech is pad up?
Pad up is a verb.
What is the past tense of pad up?
The past tense of pad up is padded up.

Words near pad up in the dictionary

  1. pad see ewe
  2. pad stitch
  3. pad stitches
  4. pad thai
  5. pad the hoof
  6. pad up
  7. pad woon sen
  8. pad-mounted
  9. pad-tree
  10. pad-trees
  11. pada

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