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phones up

phones up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of phone up.

Meaning of phone up

Verb

phone up (third-person singular simple present phones up, present participle phoning up, simple past and past participle phoned up)

  1. (ambitransitive) To phone; to contact by telephone.
    • ‘I don’t believe it!’ cried Maxine, who had only phoned up in order to relieve her own boredom and have a good moan about Serena.1994, Jill Mansell, chapter 14, in Sheer Mischief, London: Headline, published 2001, →ISBN, page 118
    Synonyms:
    call, give a ring, phone, ring
  2. (transitive) To order by telephone.
    • "If we can get his bolster-cover round his arms and then 'phone up a stomach-pump, we'll give the old dear the supper of his life."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

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What is phones up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Phones up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of phone up.

Words near phones up in the dictionary

  1. phoners
  2. phones
  3. phones ahead
  4. phones home
  5. phones in
  6. phones up
  7. phonescoping
  8. phonesex
  9. phonesful
  10. phonestheme
  11. phonesthemes

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