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roast up

roast up verb: to make fun of; ridicule severely or insultingly.

Verb

roast up (third-person singular simple present roasts up, present participle roasting up, simple past and past participle roasted up)

  1. (slang, transitive) To make fun of; ridicule severely or insultingly.
    • She wouldn't follow instructions so they roasted her up coming off the plane.
    Synonyms:
    slag off
  2. (transitive) To cook by roasting.
    • For Thanksgiving, I'll roast up a turkey.
  3. (transitive) To roast fully or completely.
    • Then I took another big cast iron pot and put it on the fire. Into this I put some unground cholai and roasted it up good.2011, Joseph S. Alter, Knowing Dil Das: Stories of a Himalayan Hunter, page 119

Synonyms of roast up

Forms of roast up

third-person singular presentroasts up
present participleroasting up
past participleroasted up
pastroasted up

Questions about roast up

What does roast up mean?
Roast up means to make fun of; ridicule severely or insultingly.
What part of speech is roast up?
Roast up is a verb.
What is the past tense of roast up?
The past tense of roast up is roasted up.

Words near roast up in the dictionary

  1. roast dinners
  2. roast iron
  3. roast irons
  4. roast pork
  5. roast porks
  6. roast up
  7. roast-beef plant
  8. roast-beef plants
  9. roast-meat clothes
  10. roastability
  11. roastable

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