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tooled up

tooled up is the simple past and past participle of tool up.

Meaning of tool up

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

Questions about tooled up

What is tooled up the simple past and past participle of?
Tooled up is the simple past and past participle of tool up.

Words near tooled up in the dictionary

  1. toolchests
  2. Toole
  3. Toole County
  4. tooled
  5. tooled around
  6. tooled up
  7. tooler
  8. Toolern Vale
  9. toolers
  10. Toolesboro
  11. Tooleville

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