"phone up" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "phones up",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phoning up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phoned up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phoned up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1994, Jill Mansell, chapter 14, in Sheer Mischief, London: Headline, published 2001, →ISBN, page 118:",
          "text": "‘I don’t believe it!’ cried Maxine, who had only phoned up in order to relieve her own boredom and have a good moan about Serena.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To phone; to contact by telephone."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "phone",
          "phone"
        ],
        [
          "telephone",
          "telephone"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ambitransitive) To phone; to contact by telephone."
      ],
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "call"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "give a ring"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "phone"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "ring"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "ambitransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "83 17",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "sense": "to contact by telephone",
          "word": "soittaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 17",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "lang_code": "fr",
          "sense": "to contact by telephone",
          "word": "téléphoner"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 17",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "lang_code": "ru",
          "roman": "zvonitʹ",
          "sense": "to contact by telephone",
          "word": "звонить"
        }
      ]
    },
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        {
          "_dis": "10 90",
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          "ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"If we can get his bolster-cover round his arms and then 'phone up a stomach-pump, we'll give the old dear the supper of his life.\"",
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      "glosses": [
        "To order by telephone."
      ],
      "id": "en-phone_up-en-verb-rVM8VKKa",
      "links": [
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To order by telephone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "phone up"
}

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    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
    "English verbs",
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "phones up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phoning up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phoned up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phoned up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English transitive verbs"
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          "ref": "1994, Jill Mansell, chapter 14, in Sheer Mischief, London: Headline, published 2001, →ISBN, page 118:",
          "text": "‘I don’t believe it!’ cried Maxine, who had only phoned up in order to relieve her own boredom and have a good moan about Serena.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To phone; to contact by telephone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "phone",
          "phone"
        ],
        [
          "telephone",
          "telephone"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ambitransitive) To phone; to contact by telephone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "ambitransitive"
      ]
    },
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              57,
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          "ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"If we can get his bolster-cover round his arms and then 'phone up a stomach-pump, we'll give the old dear the supper of his life.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To order by telephone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "telephone",
          "telephone"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To order by telephone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "call"
    },
    {
      "word": "give a ring"
    },
    {
      "word": "phone"
    },
    {
      "word": "ring"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "to contact by telephone",
      "word": "soittaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "to contact by telephone",
      "word": "téléphoner"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "zvonitʹ",
      "sense": "to contact by telephone",
      "word": "звонить"
    }
  ],
  "word": "phone up"
}