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tool up

tool up verb: to furnish with equipment.

Verb

tool up (third-person singular simple present tools up, present participle tooling up, simple past and past participle tooled up)

  1. (informal, transitive) To furnish with equipment.
  2. (informal, intransitive) To arm oneself with a weapon, especially a gun.
    • “Everyone bally [balaclava]^([sic]) up, tool up,” said one man. “Let’s show the fucking media that we’re not a fucking pushover, that no more fucking foreigners are allowed into this poxy country.”2023 November 24, Rory Carroll, “‘Government is not listening’: anger over immigration spills into riot on Dublin’s streets”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of tool up

third-person singular presenttools up
present participletooling up
past participletooled up
pasttooled up

Questions about tool up

What does tool up mean?
Tool up means to furnish with equipment.
What part of speech is tool up?
Tool up is a verb.
What is the past tense of tool up?
The past tense of tool up is tooled up.

Words near tool up in the dictionary

  1. tool steels
  2. tool stone
  3. tool stones
  4. tool subject
  5. tool subjects
  6. tool up
  7. tool-bar
  8. tool-bars
  9. tool-friendly
  10. tool-pusher
  11. tool-pushers

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