"bowl up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: bowls up [present, singular, third-person], bowling up [participle, present], bowled up [participle, past], bowled up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} bowl up (third-person singular simple present bowls up, present participle bowling up, simple past and past participle bowled up)
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To pack the bowl of a pipe with smokable material. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive
    Sense id: en-bowl_up-en-verb-QxK8rqo9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 45 55
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bowl, up. Related terms: ball up (english: to smoke marijuana)
    Sense id: en-bowl_up-en-verb-fuWsY3Mf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 45 55

Inflected forms

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