"answer up" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: answers up [present, singular, third-person], answering up [participle, present], answered up [participle, past], answered up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} answer up (third-person singular simple present answers up, present participle answering up, simple past and past participle answered up)
  1. (intransitive) To come forth with a prompt answer. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-answer_up-en-verb-C-MHAgL2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "up"

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "c. 1884, Mark Twain, “Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians”, in Walter Blair, editor, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians: And Other Unfinished Stories, published 2011, page 63",
          "text": "\"Answer up, Tom,\" but Tom didn't answer up. So he said it again, and Tom didn't answer up again; and come to look, there warn't anything there but the mule—Tom was gone.",
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        {
          "ref": "1912, The Bradys and the Yellow Giant",
          "text": "Come now, if you don't answer up at once it will be too late, \"for I shall run you right to the station. What happened to the man who went overboard?\"",
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Sheldon Russell, Dreams to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush",
          "text": "“Mavis?” he called out. When she didn't answer, he called again. “Mavis, goddang it, answer up.” “That you, Carl?” she called back from the dugout.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Kelly R. Rasmussen, Call 911!: True Stories from My Life in Emergency Dispatch, page 70",
          "text": "I overheard a voice on the fire south radio channel trying to hail us. I answer up. “This is central, go ahead unit calling.",
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        "To come forth with a prompt answer."
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        "(intransitive) To come forth with a prompt answer."
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          "ref": "2012, Kelly R. Rasmussen, Call 911!: True Stories from My Life in Emergency Dispatch, page 70",
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