"feel up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-feel up.ogg [Australia] Forms: feels up [present, singular, third-person], feeling up [participle, present], felt up [participle, past], felt up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|feel<,,felt> up}} feel up (third-person singular simple present feels up, present participle feeling up, simple past and past participle felt up)
  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To grope someone, especially someone's breasts, in a sexual manner. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Categories (topical): Sex Synonyms: tit up, touch up, fondle Synonyms (to caress): pet Related terms: touch up Translations (grope in a sexual manner): 吃豆腐 (chī dòufu) (Chinese Mandarin), depsō (Latin), perdepsō (Latin), subigitō (Latin), macać [imperfective] (Polish), pomacać [perfective] (Polish), obmacywać [imperfective] (Polish), obmacać [perfective] (Polish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "grope in a sexual manner",
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      "sense": "grope in a sexual manner",
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      "sense": "grope in a sexual manner",
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      "sense": "grope in a sexual manner",
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      "sense": "grope in a sexual manner",
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      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "grope in a sexual manner",
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      "word": "obmacywać"
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