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tooling up

tooling up is the present participle and gerund 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 tooling up

What is tooling up the present participle and gerund of?
Tooling up is the present participle and gerund of tool up.

Words near tooling up in the dictionary

  1. Toolijooa
  2. Toolik
  3. Toolik Field Station
  4. tooling
  5. tooling around
  6. tooling up
  7. toolings
  8. Toolis
  9. Toolises
  10. toolishness
  11. toolkit

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