run up

== English == === Pronunciation === === Verb === run up (third-person singular simple present runs up, present participle running up, simple past ran up, past participle run up) To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination. (with to) To approach (an event or point in time). (transitive) To take to a destination or before an authority. (dated) To erect hastily, as a building. Synonyms: throw up (dated), knock up, knock together, slap together (idiomatic, transitive) To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly. (idiomatic, transitive) To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole. (transitive) To string up; to hang. (cricket) Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball. (intransitive, transitive) To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase. (idiomatic) To accumulate (a debt). To thrust up, as anything long and slender. (aviation, transitive) To warm up and test an airplane before a flight. (African-American Vernacular, slang, sometimes reflexive) To accumulate money, drugs, etc. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run,‎ up. ==== Translations ==== === Noun === run up (countable and uncountable, plural run ups) Alternative form of run-up. === See also === run up against run up on === Anagrams === nupur, uprun