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(postpositive) informal tense or nervous

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His boss, whom he admires, is waiting to meet with him about the big project.

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Words nearby strung up

strumose, strumous, strumpet, strung, strung-out, strung up, strunt, strut, Struthers, struthious, strut one's stuff

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How to use strung up in a sentence

A young boy stands feet from the strung-up body, at the front of a crowd gathered around the cross.
Islamic Extremists Now Crucifying People in Syria—and Tweeting Out the Pictures|Jacob Siegel|April 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There had been an incident—American contractors ambushed, their charred remains strung up on bridge.
Iraq War 10th Anniversary: The Teamster|John Kael Weston|March 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Colorful banners commemorating Ramadan have already been strung up.
A Ramadan of Discontent|Babak Dehghanpisheh|July 28, 2011|DAILY BEAST
I was "strung up" to a high degree of expectation and listened every moment to hear the panpipes and the Roo-too-too-it.
A Thin Ghost and Others|M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

We must spend the rest of the bleak night strung up on this dizzy height.
Fifty-Two Stories For Girls|Various
His body was dragged through the streets, and finally strung up before one of the government buildings.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year|Edwin Emerson
Bige poled our craft out toward the center of the pond while I strung up my rod and put a white miller on the end of the leader.
Lost Pond|Henry Abbott
We found ourselves both glancing at the duck guns strung up under the racks, and then we both laughed and looked foolish. '
The Riddle of the Sands|Erskine Childers

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