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struck up

struck up is the simple past and past participle of strike up.

Meaning of strike up

Verb

strike up (third-person singular simple present strikes up, present participle striking up, simple past struck up, past participle struck up or (rare or archaic) stricken up)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To start something with somebody else, such as a conversation or relationship.
    • To make him feel welcome, she struck up a conversation with the newly arrived guest.
  2. (ergative, idiomatic, intransitive) To start something, usually playing live music.
    • The band struck up and everyone started to dance.
  3. To raise (as sheet metal), in making dishes, pans, etc., by blows or pressure in a die.

Questions about struck up

What is struck up the simple past and past participle of?
Struck up is the simple past and past participle of strike up.

Words near struck up in the dictionary

  1. struck the colors
  2. struck the iron while it's hot
  3. struck the tent
  4. struck through
  5. struck twice
  6. struck up
  7. struck while the iron is hot
  8. strucken
  9. struckest
  10. Struckman
  11. Struckmans

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