ring up

Verb

ring up (third-person singular simple present rings up, present participle ringing up, simple past rang up, past participle rung up)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To telephone; to call someone on the telephone.
   • Malone at once rang up Lord Roxton, and soon heard the familiar voice.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
   • "I was just going ashore to ring you up."1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 4
2. (transitive) To enter (a payment) into a cash register, or till in a shop, or record a credit- or debit-card payment.
   • Just ring up these items first. You can ring up those separately.
   • He took out his wallet and gave her a pound note and a ten-shilling note. She rang up the sum on the till, snapped the notes into their little clip, shut the drawer.1953, Jerrard Tickell, The Dart Players, page 21
3. (transitive) To record the payment of.
   • I'll take these. You can ring me up.
   • The cashier took a long time to ring him up.
4. (transitive) To make an adverse official decision concerning (a person).
   • Munson appeared to have taken Billy's exhortation on aggressiveness to heart. Umpire Jim McKean rung him up on strikes at one point in the game, so Thurman bumped him in anger.2001, Christopher Devine, Thurman Munson: A Baseball Biography, page 184
   • Tommy Connolly, perhaps recalling Jones's earlier argumentativeness, rung him up — too close to take.2004, Michael Coffey, 27 Men Out: Baseball's Perfect Games, page 31
5. To rouse by the ringing of a bell.

   Synonyms:

   call, call up, phone, ring

6. To strikeout a batter and thereby send him or her back to the dugout.