See person up on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "By analogy with man up.", "forms": [ { "form": "persons up", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "personing up", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "personed up", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "personed up", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*" }, "expansion": "person up (third-person singular simple present persons up, present participle personing up, simple past and past participle personed up)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2018, Rebecca Joseph, “Justin Trudeau’s ‘peoplekind’ remark draws ridicule in U.S. and U.K. media”, in Global News:", "text": "At one point Tuesday, during a testy question period exchange, deputy Tory leader Lisa Raitt urged the prime minister to “person up.”", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To show courage, strength, toughness, or responsibility; a gender-neutral alternative to \"man up\"." ], "id": "en-person_up-en-verb-JGeriOkz", "links": [ [ "humorous", "humorous" ], [ "courage", "courage" ], [ "strength", "strength" ], [ "toughness", "toughness" ], [ "responsibility", "responsibility" ], [ "gender-neutral", "gender-neutral#English" ], [ "man up", "man up#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(humorous, nonstandard) To show courage, strength, toughness, or responsibility; a gender-neutral alternative to \"man up\"." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "boss up" } ], "tags": [ "humorous", "nonstandard" ] } ], "word": "person up" }
{ "etymology_text": "By analogy with man up.", "forms": [ { "form": "persons up", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "personing up", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "personed up", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "personed up", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*" }, "expansion": "person up (third-person singular simple present persons up, present participle personing up, simple past and past participle personed up)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English humorous terms", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nonstandard terms", "English phrasal verbs", "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"", "English terms with quotations", "English verbs", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2018, Rebecca Joseph, “Justin Trudeau’s ‘peoplekind’ remark draws ridicule in U.S. and U.K. media”, in Global News:", "text": "At one point Tuesday, during a testy question period exchange, deputy Tory leader Lisa Raitt urged the prime minister to “person up.”", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To show courage, strength, toughness, or responsibility; a gender-neutral alternative to \"man up\"." ], "links": [ [ "humorous", "humorous" ], [ "courage", "courage" ], [ "strength", "strength" ], [ "toughness", "toughness" ], [ "responsibility", "responsibility" ], [ "gender-neutral", "gender-neutral#English" ], [ "man up", "man up#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(humorous, nonstandard) To show courage, strength, toughness, or responsibility; a gender-neutral alternative to \"man up\"." ], "tags": [ "humorous", "nonstandard" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "boss up" } ], "word": "person up" }
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