English

Verb

run up ‎(third-person singular simple present runs up, present participle running up, simple past ran up, past participle run up)

1. Used other than as an idiom: see run,‎ up.

   The small boy ran up the hill.

2. To hasten to a destination.

   The dog ran up under the table to get his doggie-bowl.

3. To erect hastily, as a building.
4. (idiomatic) To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.

   I'll run you up a skirt for tomorrow evening.

5. (idiomatic) To bring a flag to the top of its flag pole.

   Stand quietly while the honor guard runs the flag up the pole.

6. (cricket) of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
7. To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.

   Accounts of goods credited run up very fast.

   • Sir Walter Scott

     But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees.

8. (idiomatic) To accumulate a debt.

   He ran up over $5,000 in unpaid bills.

9. (figuratively) To thrust up, as anything long and slender.

   The fence runs up along the edge of the pasture.

Translations

See also

• run up against

Noun

run up ‎(plural run ups)

1. (cricket) the action of running up; the area of the pitch used by the bowler to run up, the start of which he marks with a small marker

Alternative forms

• runup
• run-up