choose up

1. Select players and form sides for a game or team, as in Jean was always afraid she'd be last when it was time to choose up. [First half of 1900s]

Example Sentences

As the European nations chose up sides, they were busily arming themselves.

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Cole and Caden would start shouting about choosing up teams even before they’d figured out what game they wanted to play.

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Party lists for the lower house are closed, so voters pick a party rather than a specific candidate, but choose up to three regional senators.

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Party lists for lawmakers are closed, so voters pick a party rather than a specific candidate, but chose up to three regional senators.

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Ms. Demings said, “I support a woman’s right to choose up until the time of viability.”

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