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re-upping

re-upping is the present participle and gerund of re-up.

Meaning of re-up

Verb (1)

re-up (third-person singular simple present re-ups, present participle re-upping, simple past and past participle re-upped)

  1. (US) To reenlist.
  2. (intransitive) To sign up again.
    • Andy Levine, the founder and chief executive of Sixthman, said that more than 50 percent of attendees re-up for his cruises. According to Mr. Levine, his average passenger is 35 years old […].2012 March 30, Joe Levy, “Rockers at Sea”, in The New York Times
  3. (informal) To renew (e.g. a library book, a lease, a contract).

Verb (2)

re-up (third-person singular simple present re-ups, present participle re-upping, simple past and past participle re-upped)

  1. (US) To renegotiate a contract.
  2. (slang) To refill one's drug stash.
    • While we're here, you mind if I re-up?2015 July 1, Sam Esmail, “eps1.1_ones-and-zer0es.mpeg”, in Mr. Robot, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Elliot Alderson
  3. (slang) To take another dose.
    • Gave me a cryptic, mostly frustrated-seeming look. Went upstairs with her bestie. To re-up, probably.2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette, →ISBN

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Questions about re-upping

What is re-upping the present participle and gerund of?
Re-upping is the present participle and gerund of re-up.

Words near re-upping in the dictionary

  1. re-uploader
  2. re-uploaders
  3. re-uploading
  4. re-uploads
  5. re-upped
  6. re-upping
  7. re-ups
  8. re-usable
  9. re-usage
  10. re-usages
  11. re-use

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-upping (page history and authors); re-up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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