"brass up" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brasses up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brassing up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brassed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brassed up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "brass up (third-person singular simple present brasses up, present participle brassing up, simple past and past participle brassed up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "_dis": "59 41",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "78 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1949, P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season",
          "text": "\"What did he soak him? Five quid?\"\n\"Yes, sir.\"\n\"And Gussie brassed up and was free?\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pay a debt or hand over money."
      ],
      "id": "en-brass_up-en-verb--ThvRikF",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) To pay a debt or hand over money."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    },
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Military",
          "orig": "en:Military",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
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            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, The Listener, volume 108, page 3",
          "text": "The next time I met RSM Simpson was when we were together being 'brassed up' by enemy artillery and mortar […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Stuart Rintoul, Ashes of Vietnam: Australian voices, page 126",
          "text": "I went back in and threw a hand-grenade under the bed and then I brassed up the house. They were dead, of course.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To shell."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "shell",
          "shell"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military, slang, transitive) To shell."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "brass up"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brasses up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brassing up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brassed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brassed up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "brass up (third-person singular simple present brasses up, present participle brassing up, simple past and past participle brassed up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1949, P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season",
          "text": "\"What did he soak him? Five quid?\"\n\"Yes, sir.\"\n\"And Gussie brassed up and was free?\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pay a debt or hand over money."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) To pay a debt or hand over money."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Military"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, The Listener, volume 108, page 3",
          "text": "The next time I met RSM Simpson was when we were together being 'brassed up' by enemy artillery and mortar […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Stuart Rintoul, Ashes of Vietnam: Australian voices, page 126",
          "text": "I went back in and threw a hand-grenade under the bed and then I brassed up the house. They were dead, of course.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To shell."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "shell",
          "shell"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military, slang, transitive) To shell."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
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  ],
  "word": "brass up"
}