ring up


verb(adverb)
  1. mainly British to make a telephone call (to)

  2. (tr) to record on a cash register

  1. (tr) to chronicle; record: to ring up another success

  2. ring up the curtain

    • to begin a theatrical performance

    • (often foll by on) to make a start (on)

Words Nearby ring up

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How to use ring up in a sentence

  • "I'll ring up and let you know," said Henry, and slipped away to the shower room.

    Fore! | Charles Emmett Van Loan
  • "I will ring up from Waterloo and make an appointment," she thought.

    Dangerous Ages | Rose Macaulay

Other Idioms and Phrases with ring up

ring up

Record, especially by means of a cash register, as in They had already rung up the sale so I decided not to get the extra items. [c. 1930] Although older cash registers usually signaled a recorded sale with the ringing of a bell, the idiom survives in the age of computers.

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