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tools up

tools up is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 tools up

What is tools up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Tools up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tool up.

Words near tools up in the dictionary

  1. tools and dies
  2. tools around
  3. tools of ignorance
  4. tools of the trade
  5. tools of trade
  6. tools up
  7. toolset
  8. toolsets
  9. toolsetter
  10. toolsetters
  11. toolsetting

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