meet up with

1. Encounter, especially by accident, as in We hadn't gone far along the trail when we met up with another mule train. [Colloquial; late 1800s]

Example Sentences

Ama and I descend the stairs as fast as we can, meeting up with Autumn and Woo.

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They even carried slingshots loaded with very hard acorns, in case they met up with dangerous mail bandits along their postal route.

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Before Kruglov set off for the festival, he met up with some friends in New York, where he lived for 10 years.

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Bad time to meet up with the Chiefs, who are looking like the same old explosive Kansas City squad.

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In one sequence, in which Mike meets up with the local homeless community, Dickinson kept two cameras with huge zoom lenses hundreds of feet away from the action.

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