fetch up


verb(adverb)
  1. (intr; usually foll by at or in) informal 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

  1. slang to vomit (food, etc)

  2. (tr) British dialect to rear (children, animals, etc)

Words Nearby fetch up

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How to use fetch up in a sentence

  • Away went man and beast in something of a circle, to fetch up near Pawnee Brown less than a minute later.

    The Boy Land Boomer | Ralph Bonehill
  • But, so soon as the British lion is roused, we never fail to fetch up our lee-way, as the sailors say.

  • Marble and I now began to question our fisherman as to the precise point where he intended to fetch up.

    Miles Wallingford | James Fenimore Cooper