"talk up" meaning in English

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        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "talking up",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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      "form": "talked up",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "talked up",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "text": "The restaurant had been talked up way too much, that it left me somewhat disappointed.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Charlie's been talking up Robbie in an attempt to set him up with Lucy.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 21, Christian Wolmar, “Trevelyan must 'give a damn' and engage with the railway”, in RAIL, number 966, page 45",
          "text": "Moreover, the new Prime Minister has already talked up the need for new strike-breaking legislation, in the form of requirements for railworkers to provide a minimum service during any industrial action.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To talk about (something or someone) to make it seem as good as possible or to draw positive attention to it."
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        "(idiomatic, transitive) To talk about (something or someone) to make it seem as good as possible or to draw positive attention to it."
      ],
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        {
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          "sense": "talk about someone positively",
          "word": "big up"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 4 1",
          "sense": "talk about someone positively",
          "word": "promote"
        }
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
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        "To talk louder."
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          "louder",
          "louder"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, intransitive) To talk louder."
      ],
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          "_dis1": "42 58 0",
          "word": "chat up"
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        {
          "_dis1": "8 92 0",
          "sense": "talk louder",
          "word": "speak up"
        }
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        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
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      "glosses": [
        "To speak in a plain and candid way, or with bold impudence."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To speak in a plain and candid way, or with bold impudence."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
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      "tags": [
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      "form": "talks up",
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        "present",
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    {
      "form": "talking up",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "talked up",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "talked up",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English transitive verbs"
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        {
          "text": "The restaurant had been talked up way too much, that it left me somewhat disappointed.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Charlie's been talking up Robbie in an attempt to set him up with Lucy.",
          "type": "example"
        },
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          "ref": "2022 September 21, Christian Wolmar, “Trevelyan must 'give a damn' and engage with the railway”, in RAIL, number 966, page 45",
          "text": "Moreover, the new Prime Minister has already talked up the need for new strike-breaking legislation, in the form of requirements for railworkers to provide a minimum service during any industrial action.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To talk about (something or someone) to make it seem as good as possible or to draw positive attention to it."
      ],
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          "about",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To talk about (something or someone) to make it seem as good as possible or to draw positive attention to it."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
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    },
    {
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To talk louder."
      ],
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        [
          "talk",
          "talk"
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        [
          "louder",
          "louder"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, intransitive) To talk louder."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
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    },
    {
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        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To speak in a plain and candid way, or with bold impudence."
      ],
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        [
          "bold",
          "bold"
        ],
        [
          "impudence",
          "impudence"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To speak in a plain and candid way, or with bold impudence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
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    {
      "sense": "talk about someone positively",
      "word": "big up"
    },
    {
      "sense": "talk about someone positively",
      "word": "promote"
    },
    {
      "sense": "talk louder",
      "word": "speak up"
    }
  ],
  "word": "talk up"
}