ring up
Verb
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Verb
ring up
- (transitive, idiomatic) To telephone; to call someone on the telephone.
- (transitive) To enter (a payment) into a cash register, or till in a shop, or record a credit- or debit-card payment.
- 1953, Jerrard Tickell, The Dart Players, page 21,
- He took out his wallet and gave her a pound note and a ten-shilling note. She rang up the sum on the till, snapped the notes into their little clip, shut the drawer.
- 1953, Jerrard Tickell, The Dart Players, page 21,
- (transitive) To record the payment of.
- The cashier took a long time to ring him up.
- (transitive) To make an adverse official decision concerning (a person).
- To rouse by the ringing of a bell.
- (baseball, dated) To strikeout a batter and thereby send him or her back to the dugout.
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