"hem up" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hems up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hemming up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hemmed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hemmed up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "hem up (third-person singular simple present hems up, present participle hemming up, simple past and past participle hemmed up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Kali James, Can U Get Away?, page 17",
          "text": "Taking him home she hemmed him up soon as they stepped in the door. Now Tony was a bad dude in the streets but when it came to his mama, he was a punk. A few cuss words on her part had him spilling everything.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Tiffany Bolado, The Legacy of Misperception, page 89",
          "text": "Felicia and Jorge remained inside, observing in horror. Carlos hastily went to where his brother was and grabbed him with all his might. He placed him in a choke-hold and hemmed him up on the brick wall.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To restrain (a person) by grabbing their collar."
      ],
      "id": "en-hem_up-en-verb-PzLHmXee",
      "links": [
        [
          "restrain",
          "restrain"
        ],
        [
          "grab",
          "grab"
        ],
        [
          "collar",
          "collar"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, informal) To restrain (a person) by grabbing their collar."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "10 90",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 90",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The last thing you want is to get hemmed up in prison."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To arrest or lock up."
      ],
      "id": "en-hem_up-en-verb-Kh5uvgsJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "arrest",
          "arrest"
        ],
        [
          "lock up",
          "lock up"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, slang) To arrest or lock up."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hem up"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hems up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hemming up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hemmed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hemmed up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "hem up (third-person singular simple present hems up, present participle hemming up, simple past and past participle hemmed up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Kali James, Can U Get Away?, page 17",
          "text": "Taking him home she hemmed him up soon as they stepped in the door. Now Tony was a bad dude in the streets but when it came to his mama, he was a punk. A few cuss words on her part had him spilling everything.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Tiffany Bolado, The Legacy of Misperception, page 89",
          "text": "Felicia and Jorge remained inside, observing in horror. Carlos hastily went to where his brother was and grabbed him with all his might. He placed him in a choke-hold and hemmed him up on the brick wall.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To restrain (a person) by grabbing their collar."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "restrain",
          "restrain"
        ],
        [
          "grab",
          "grab"
        ],
        [
          "collar",
          "collar"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, informal) To restrain (a person) by grabbing their collar."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The last thing you want is to get hemmed up in prison."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To arrest or lock up."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "arrest",
          "arrest"
        ],
        [
          "lock up",
          "lock up"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, slang) To arrest or lock up."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hem up"
}