fetch up

British  

verb

1. informal (intr; usually foll by at or in) to arrive (at) or end up (in)

   to fetch up in New York

2. (intr) nautical to stop suddenly, as from running aground

   to fetch up on a rock

3. slang to vomit (food, etc)

4. dialect (tr) to rear (children, animals, etc)

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Example Sentences

Now, then, you young Triton, look slippy, Fetch up t'other bottle.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 23, 1887. by Various

"Fetch up two hundred more before Mr. Brownjohn comes back," Arthur said.

From Ovington's Bank by Weyman, Stanley J.

He abruptly kissed heron the cheek, watched as she flushed in anger, then turned and yelled to a seaman just entering the companionway aft, "Fetch up another flask of sack."

From Caribbee by Hoover, Thomas

Fetch up supper and look sharp—supper for two.

From The Baronet's Bride by Fleming, May Agnes

"Fetch up Jane Shore," he says; and up she comes.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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