"up on" meaning in English

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      "form": "more up on",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most up on",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "up on (not generally comparable, comparative more up on, superlative most up on)",
      "name": "en-adj"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "text": "The tour guide was certainly up on his history.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Aliens:",
          "text": "Maybe you aren't up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked, pal",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 June 24, Christopher John Farley, “The New Video Wizards”, in Time:",
          "text": "Says Sigismondi: \"I don't watch [MTV]. I'm really not up on what's trendy.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 August 25, William Grimes, “Casey Ribicoff, Senator’s Widow and a Style Leader, Dies at 88”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-01-03:",
          "text": "“She was up on everything,” said the biographer A. Scott Berg. “Not just the news but every play or film or book.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Well-informed concerning."
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          "well-informed"
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        "(idiomatic, colloquial) Well-informed concerning."
      ],
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        "colloquial",
        "idiomatic",
        "not-comparable",
        "usually"
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      "form": "more up on",
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "form": "most up on",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "-",
        "2": "more"
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  ],
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  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "text": "The tour guide was certainly up on his history.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Aliens:",
          "text": "Maybe you aren't up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked, pal",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 June 24, Christopher John Farley, “The New Video Wizards”, in Time:",
          "text": "Says Sigismondi: \"I don't watch [MTV]. I'm really not up on what's trendy.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 August 25, William Grimes, “Casey Ribicoff, Senator’s Widow and a Style Leader, Dies at 88”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-01-03:",
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          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Well-informed concerning."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic, colloquial) Well-informed concerning."
      ],
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        "usually"
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