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rustle up

rustle up verb: to forage for, or (figuratively) to quickly prepare, something.

Verb

rustle up (third-person singular simple present rustles up, present participle rustling up, simple past and past participle rustled up)

  1. (idiomatic) To forage for, or (figuratively) to quickly prepare, something.
    • I'll see if I can rustle up a meal before the guests start arriving in 30 minutes.

Forms of rustle up

third-person singular presentrustles up
present participlerustling up
past participlerustled up
pastrustled up

Questions about rustle up

What does rustle up mean?
Rustle up means to forage for, or (figuratively) to quickly prepare, something.
What part of speech is rustle up?
Rustle up is a verb.
What is the past tense of rustle up?
The past tense of rustle up is rustled up.

Words near rustle up in the dictionary

  1. rustique
  2. rustle
  3. rustle someone's jim-jams
  4. rustle someone's jimmies
  5. rustle time
  6. rustle up
  7. rustled
  8. rustled someone's jimmies
  9. rustled up
  10. rustler
  11. rustlers

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