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wedge up

wedge up verb: to fill or block up with wedges.

Verb

wedge up (third-person singular simple present wedges up, present participle wedging up, simple past and past participle wedged up)

  1. (transitive) To fill or block up with wedges.
  2. (UK, intransitive, slang) To barricade oneself in one's cell.
    • They both wedged up in his cell and refused to come out. They were hurling abuse at the screws on the other side of the door. As a result they were both shipped out to another jail the following day.2000, Reginald Kray, A Way of Life

Forms of wedge up

third-person singular presentwedges up
present participlewedging up
past participlewedged up
pastwedged up

Questions about wedge up

What does wedge up mean?
Wedge up means to fill or block up with wedges.
What part of speech is wedge up?
Wedge up is a verb.
What is the past tense of wedge up?
The past tense of wedge up is wedged up.

Words near wedge up in the dictionary

  1. wedge sums
  2. wedge tomb
  3. wedge tombs
  4. wedge tornado
  5. wedge tornadoes
  6. wedge up
  7. wedge writing
  8. wedge-and-dash
  9. wedge-feeder
  10. wedge-like
  11. wedge-shaped

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