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roasts up

roasts up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of roast up.

Meaning of roast up

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

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What is roasts up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Roasts up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of roast up.

Words near roasts up in the dictionary

  1. roastmaster
  2. roastmasters
  3. roastnear
  4. roastnears
  5. roasts
  6. roasts up
  7. roasty
  8. Roat
  9. Roata de Jos
  10. Roatan
  11. ROATE

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