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padding up

padding up is the present participle and gerund 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 padding up

What is padding up the present participle and gerund of?
Padding up is the present participle and gerund of pad up.

Words near padding up in the dictionary

  1. paddies
  2. padding
  3. padding down
  4. padding out
  5. padding the hoof
  6. padding up
  7. padding-ken
  8. padding-kens
  9. paddings
  10. Paddington
  11. Paddingtonian

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