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run up in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. accumulate as a debt
    "he chalked up $100 in the course of the evening"
    chalk up  run up 
  2. raise
    "hoist the flags"; "hoist a sail"
    hoist  run up 
  3. pile up (debts or scores)
    run up 
  4. fasten by sewing; do needlework
    sew  run up  sew together  stitch 
  5. make by sewing together quickly
    "run up a skirt"
    run up 
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run up in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (verb) (cricket) of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball
  2. (verb) (idiom) To bring a flag to the top of it's flag pole
  3. (verb) (idiom)To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly
  4. (verb) (idiom)To accumulate a debt
  5. (noun) (cricket) the action of running up; the area of the pitch used by the bowler to run up, the start of which he marks with a small marker
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