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thumbs-upping

thumbs-upping is the present participle and gerund of thumbs-up.

Meaning of thumbs-up

Verb

thumbs-up (third-person singular simple present thumbs-ups, present participle thumbs-upping, simple past and past participle thumbs-upped)

  1. (transitive) To approve with a thumbs-up sign.
    • He stood outside the dressing room and thumbs-upped or thumbs-downed each choice.2015, Anne Wagener, Borrow-A-Bridesmaid
    Antonyms:
    thumbs-down

Questions about thumbs-upping

What is thumbs-upping the present participle and gerund of?
Thumbs-upping is the present participle and gerund of thumbs-up.

Words near thumbs-upping in the dictionary

  1. thumbs-downed
  2. thumbs-downing
  3. thumbs-downs
  4. thumbs-up
  5. thumbs-upped
  6. thumbs-upping
  7. thumbs-ups
  8. thumbsbreadth
  9. thumbsbreadths
  10. thumbscrew
  11. thumbscrews

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thumbs-upping (page history and authors); thumbs-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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