"couple up" meaning in English

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      "form": "couples up",
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    },
    {
      "form": "coupling up",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "coupled up",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coupled up",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1892, Congressional Serial Set, page 492:",
          "text": "It is utterly impossible for any factory in the United States to couple up 8,000 feet of hose within ten hours unless they had thirty or forty men on and have the couplings made, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To put into a couple; to put into, or connect together as, a group of two."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To put into a couple; to put into, or connect together as, a group of two."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "pair up"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "pal up"
        }
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        {
          "text": "For this next challenge, you'll need to couple up with someone.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999 March 20, Natalie Angiers, The Guardian:",
          "text": "By contrast, lesbians are sexually sedate. They don’t cruise sex clubs. They couple up and stay coupled, and they like cuddling and hugging more than they do serious, genitally-based sex.",
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        "To get into pairs; to become a group of two."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To get into pairs; to become a group of two."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "couple up"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "couples up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coupling up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "coupled up",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "coupled up",
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        "past"
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "pair up"
    },
    {
      "word": "pal up"
    }
  ],
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        {
          "ref": "1892, Congressional Serial Set, page 492:",
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        }
      ],
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        "To put into a couple; to put into, or connect together as, a group of two."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To put into a couple; to put into, or connect together as, a group of two."
      ],
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          "text": "For this next challenge, you'll need to couple up with someone.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999 March 20, Natalie Angiers, The Guardian:",
          "text": "By contrast, lesbians are sexually sedate. They don’t cruise sex clubs. They couple up and stay coupled, and they like cuddling and hugging more than they do serious, genitally-based sex.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "To get into pairs; to become a group of two."
      ],
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        "(intransitive) To get into pairs; to become a group of two."
      ],
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  "word": "couple up"
}