Run-up Definition

runup
noun
A preparatory period preceding an important event.
Webster's New World
A substantial, often rapid, increase in cost, price, value, etc.
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(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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Alternative spelling of run-up.

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Synonyms:
  • runup
verb

(cricket) Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.

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(idiomatic) To bring a flag to the top of its flag pole.

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(idiomatic) To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.

I'll run you up a skirt for tomorrow evening.
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(idiomatic) To accumulate a debt.

He ran up over $5,000 in unpaid bills.
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Other Word Forms of Run-up

Noun

Singular:
run-up
Plural:
run-ups

Run-up Sentence Examples

  • It is also important to select leafy growths, and not such as will at'once run up to flower.

  • I'll run up and get the box.

  • They can run up to 35 mph and they have more stamina than a horse.

  • In English churches these stairs generally run up in a small turret in the wall at the west end of the chancel; often this also leads out on to the roof.

  • It presents a single pair of muscles attached along its inner wall which run up and form a muscular girdle round the body in its posterior third.

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Words Starting With

RRURUN

Words Ending With

PUP

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Words Starting With R and Ending With P

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