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padded up

padded up is the simple past and past participle of pad up.

Meaning of pad up

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.

Questions about padded up

What is padded up the simple past and past participle of?
Padded up is the simple past and past participle of pad up.

Words near padded up in the dictionary

  1. padded mailers
  2. padded out
  3. padded room
  4. padded rooms
  5. padded the hoof
  6. padded up
  7. paddedness
  8. Padden
  9. padder
  10. padders
  11. paddie

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