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wind up verb- to make fun of someone; to play a practical joke on someone UK, 1979
The image of the mainspring in a clockwork motor getting more and more tightly wound. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 123, 1996
- Wolfie, seeing real wind-up possibilities here, asks them how many “drinks” they usually get. — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 30, 2000
- to arrive; to arrive eventually; to settle in a final position US, 1918
- After graduating, [Ed] Catmull wound up at Lucasfilm during the first Star Wars trilogy[.] — The Guardian, 11 October 2003
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