"lace up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: laces up [present, singular, third-person], lacing up [participle, present], laced up [participle, past], laced up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} lace up (third-person singular simple present laces up, present participle lacing up, simple past and past participle laced up)
  1. (transitive) To fasten the laces of something. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-lace_up-en-verb-UQCrs0ik
  2. (transitive) To insert (film) into a projector. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Footwear
    Sense id: en-lace_up-en-verb-jy70ZWig Disambiguation of Footwear: 20 80 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English phrasal verbs with particle (up), English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 77 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 9 91 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 17 83 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 10 90

Inflected forms

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