rumple up
rumple up
1. To cause something to become wrinkled or creased. A noun or pronoun can be used between "rumple" and "up." Make sure you don't rumple up your shirt before your interview tomorrow! Don't toss your clothes in a heap like that—you'll rumple them up!
2. To physically assault someone; to beat someone up. A noun or pronoun can be used between "rumple" and "up." The mob boss sent a couple goons over to rumple the accountant up so that he would be too scared to testify. A group of older boys rumpled me up a bit because I wore a pink shirt to school.
See also: up
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
rumple someone or something up
to bring disorder to someone ['s clothing] or something; to wrinkle someone or something. One of the little boys knocked another boy down and rumpled him up. He rumpled up Dan's shirt.
See also: up
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- adapt (something) to (something)
- adapt to
- involve with
- involve with (someone or something)
- involved with
- arrange for
- arrange for some time
- arrange some music for
- back into
- back into (someone or something)