"choose up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-choose up.ogg [Australia] Forms: choosing up [present, singular, third-person], chooses up [participle, present], chose up [past], chosen up [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|choose<choosing,chooses,chose,chosen> up}} choose up (third-person singular simple present choosing up, present participle chooses up, simple past chose up, past participle chosen up)
  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To form (sides or teams), usually for a game, by having two individual players choose their teammates. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive
    Sense id: en-choose_up-en-verb-cSNHxgX3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 64 36 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 71 29
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To select; pick, especially, to make a final decision on a selection or option. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Related terms: choose sides
    Sense id: en-choose_up-en-verb-koHrAjrX

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for choose up meaning in English (2.9kB)

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          "ref": "2010, Vanessa Place, The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality, and Law, page 153",
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          "text": "A couple bitches tried to play me\nThey tried to have my babies\nI’m like “bitches, you crazy?”\nI’m tryna git my loot up\n[…]\nMoney or a broke bitch\nIt ain’t hard for me to choose up",
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          "ref": "2019, Maurice Holland, Street Poisoned: The Game Chose Me, page 166",
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