"wedge up" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wedges up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wedging up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wedged up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wedged up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "wedge up (third-person singular simple present wedges up, present participle wedging up, simple past and past participle wedged up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To fill or block up with wedges."
      ],
      "id": "en-wedge_up-en-verb-xCEKPNxf",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To fill or block up with wedges."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "_dis": "29 71",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 80",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Reginald Kray, A Way of Life:",
          "text": "They both wedged up in his cell and refused to come out. They were hurling abuse at the screws on the other side of the door. As a result they were both shipped out to another jail the following day.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To barricade oneself in one's cell."
      ],
      "id": "en-wedge_up-en-verb-TOd6tSiW",
      "links": [
        [
          "prison",
          "prison"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "barricade",
          "barricade"
        ],
        [
          "cell",
          "cell"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, UK, prison slang) To barricade oneself in one's cell."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "intransitive",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wedge up"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wedges up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wedging up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wedged up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wedged up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "wedge up (third-person singular simple present wedges up, present participle wedging up, simple past and past participle wedged up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fill or block up with wedges."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To fill or block up with wedges."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "British English",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English prison slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Reginald Kray, A Way of Life:",
          "text": "They both wedged up in his cell and refused to come out. They were hurling abuse at the screws on the other side of the door. As a result they were both shipped out to another jail the following day.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To barricade oneself in one's cell."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prison",
          "prison"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "barricade",
          "barricade"
        ],
        [
          "cell",
          "cell"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, UK, prison slang) To barricade oneself in one's cell."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "intransitive",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wedge up"
}