"buckle up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-buckle up.ogg [Australia] Forms: buckles up [present, singular, third-person], buckling up [participle, present], buckled up [participle, past], buckled up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} buckle up (third-person singular simple present buckles up, present participle buckling up, simple past and past participle buckled up)
  1. (transitive) To fasten with a buckle. Tags: transitive Related terms: buckle down
    Sense id: en-buckle_up-en-verb-eUH7R4mq
  2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To fasten one's seat belt or safety belt. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Categories (topical): Automotive Synonyms: belt up Translations (to fasten one’s seat belt or safety belt): 繫上安全帶 (Chinese Mandarin), 系上安全带 (jìshang ānquándài) (Chinese Mandarin), připoutat se (Czech), kiinnittää turvavyö (Finnish), s’attacher (French), (sich) anschnallen (German), allacciarsi impegnarsi (Italian), abrochar el cinturón [pronominal] (Spanish), spänna fast sig (Swedish), använda/fästa säkerhetsbälte [neuter] (Swedish), emniyet kemerini bağlamak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-buckle_up-en-verb-gydWkFhI Disambiguation of Automotive: 38 62 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 80 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 26 74 Disambiguation of 'to fasten one’s seat belt or safety belt': 6 94

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for buckle up meaning in English (3.7kB)

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      "word": "spänna fast sig"
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