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pads up

pads up is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 pads up

What is pads up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pads up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pad up.

Words near pads up in the dictionary

  1. padrões
  2. pads
  3. pads down
  4. pads out
  5. pads the hoof
  6. pads up
  7. padsaw
  8. padsaws
  9. padshah
  10. padshahs
  11. padshaw

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