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stumped up

stumped up is the simple past and past participle of stump up.

Meaning of stump up

Verb

stump up (third-person singular simple present stumps up, present participle stumping up, simple past and past participle stumped up)

  1. (UK, informal) To pay for something, often with reluctance.
    • Jim stumped up for the cinema tickets, but I paid for the coffees afterwards.

Questions about stumped up

What is stumped up the simple past and past participle of?
Stumped up is the simple past and past participle of stump up.

Words near stumped up in the dictionary

  1. stumpcam
  2. stumpcams
  3. stumped
  4. stumped it
  5. stumped out
  6. stumped up
  7. stumpedst
  8. stumper
  9. stumperies
  10. stumpers
  11. stumpery

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stumped up (page history and authors); stump 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.

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