takes up with

Verb

take up with (third-person singular simple present takes up with, present participle taking up with, simple past took up with, past participle taken up with)

1. To form a close relationship with (someone).
   • I hear that John has taken up with Jane.
2. To become interested in (something).
   • For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The King and Queen Make a Progress to the Frontiers. The Author Attends Them. The Manner in which He Leaves the Country Very Particularly Related. He Returns to...
3. To begin living together with; to lodge with.
4. (archaic) To be contented to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with.
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, up, take up, with.
   • He took them up with him on his next trip to the mountains.