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re-up
verb
to replenish a stack of something; to resupply something; to re-sign or re-enlist US, 1906
Originally a military slang term for re-enlisting.- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 48, 1945
- — American Speech, pp. 232–234, October 1962: “Re-Up”
- Harper just got out of the Air Force and they asked him if he wanted to re-up, as they call it. — Jim Bouton, Ball Four, p. 20, 1970
- I just might possible re-up and make a twenty-year career of it–but only if I made the rank of staff sergeant before my four-year tour ended. — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 107, 1978
- Then I re-upped for another tour. — Apocalypse Now, 1979
- He done a year in Japan in the hospital, then when he gets out, the first thing he done is re-up. — Platoon, 1986
- “Splib,” said Max, “thinks he’s gonna re-up on my stuff when he gets the money he says is owed him in the street.” — Terry Williams, The Cocaine Kids, p. 38, 1989
- “Re-up, re-up,” he announced, blaring out the words over the music in his head. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 6, 1992
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