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adjective- happening; going on UK, 1838
- YOU KNOW something’s up when the Daily Mail invokes support for an argument from the Commission for Racial Equality[.] — Socialist Worker, 11 August 2001
- What’s up with US women? — The Guardian, 26 August 2002
- wrong; amiss UK, 1849
- I says what’s up, doc? Bugs Bunny had more truth to speak about life than the humans on the tube. — Ted Dekker, Three, p. 25, 2003
- successful US
- — Los Angeles Times, p. B10, 5 January 1990
- under the influence of a drug, especially LSD and, later, MDMA, the recreational drug best known as ecstasy US
- — J. L. Simmons and Barry Winograd, It’s Happening, p. 174, 1966: “glossary”
- Comin up, Paulie?–Oh am up, am fuckin way, way up[.] — Niall Griffiths, Grits, p. 34, 2000
- pregnant TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1991
- — Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
- used of waves, large US
Giving rise to the cry, “Surf’s up!”. - — John Severson, Modern Surfing Around the World, p. 184, 1964
- imprisoned US
- Up there I meet a lot of the boys, including Rocco Fabrizi, who was up for stealing cars. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 20, 1975
- Homicide, narcotics, sodomy, impairing the morals of a minor, larceny–he had been up on everything at one time or another. — Edwin Torres, Q & A, p. 108, 1977
- of food or drink, made, cooked, ready, served UK, 1961
- Jubilee was already dishing out the food into semicircular bowls. Vikki rushed to the door and flung it wide open “Berkley! Les! Grub’s up!” — Ian Stewart, Flatterland, p. 8, 2002
- in the used car business, next on the salesmen’s rotation list to approach a potential customer who has walked onto the sales forecourt US
- — Peter Mann, How to Buy a Used Car Without Getting Gypped, p. 196, 1975
- used of an actor in the television and film industries, unable to remember lines US
- — Tony Miller and Patricia George, Cut! Print!, p. 188, 1977
- of a male, having sexual intercourse with someone UK, 1937
- I’d rather be up her than up in Newcastle. — Coin Watson, One Man’s Meat, p. 74, 1977
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