to make something very quickly, especially something that you sew
to raise a flag to the top of a pole
All they've got to do is run up the past records on a computer.
Anyway, in the run-up to the fête, I was on occasion thrown into the company of Mrs Mipchin, and, as I say, she proved useful.
He went the complete length, turned, and paused for the final run-up.
I can run up a pair of curtains in a day.
Muscles like horses, all of them, but they can hardly run up a flight of stairs.
On the other two, run-up days and recording days, he kept sober.
Wet with sweat, and almost naked like this, he looked like he'd just run up the beach.
When we lived at Woodhouse you used to run up the lane to that cottage called The Nook, where the old blacksmith lived.
`To negotiate the details of an agreement in the immediate run-up to an election takes all negotiating flexibility away from you.
runs up
running up
ran up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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