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tooled up

British  

adjective

  1. slang equipped with a weapon, esp a gun

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Ukraine's factories have tooled up to make equipment to help keep the sappers safer.

From Reuters ● Aug. 3, 2023

“We had already tooled up the lid,” he said, absently pushing the spinner’s button and watching it whir.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2022

But if the government is now tooled up to save every email and phone call, what untold biographical riches is it storing up?

From The Guardian ● Jul. 3, 2013

And once that product is designed, it’s tested with focus groups, manufacturing is tooled up, and 100,000 or a million products are made and brought to market.

From Forbes ● Aug. 8, 2012

For example, a special division of LC has tooled up and thought through all the ramifications of electronic presentation of photographs.

From Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress

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