"wife up" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-wife up.ogg [Australia] Forms: wifes up [present, singular, third-person], wifing up [participle, present], wifed up [participle, past], wifed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} wife up (third-person singular simple present wifes up, present participle wifing up, simple past and past participle wifed up)
  1. (slang) (of a man) to marry a woman (generally an existing girlfriend); to make a woman one’s wife Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-wife_up-en-verb-H25-Kaf4
  2. (slang) (of a man) to spend extensive or excessive time with one’s wife or girlfriend; to be under a woman’s thumb; to be whipped Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-wife_up-en-verb-1t8vMoff Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 85 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 16 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: shack up

Inflected forms

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