Word.ws English Dictionary

served up

served up is the simple past and past participle of serve up.

Meaning of serve up

Verb

serve up (third-person singular simple present serves up, present participle serving up, simple past and past participle served up)

  1. (transitive) To present (food or drink) to those who will consume it; to serve.
    • She serves up pizza at nights.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To provide; deliver; inflict; impose.
    • The cloud storage provider serves up server space.
  3. (transitive) To pitch, throw, serve, or kick a ball to an opponent so that it is easily hit or intercepted.
    • He thought he was about to score, but he served it up to the other team.

Questions about served up

What is served up the simple past and past participle of?
Served up is the simple past and past participle of serve up.

Words near served up in the dictionary

  1. served someone with the same sauce
  2. served the time
  3. served the turn
  4. served time
  5. served two masters
  6. served up
  7. served with the colors
  8. served with the colours
  9. servedst
  10. servee
  11. servees

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: served up (page history and authors); serve 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “served up.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/served_up. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.