run up

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run up - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  run up
      v 1: pile up (debts or scores)
      2: raise; "hoist the flags"; "hoist a sail" [syn: hoist, run   up
         ]
      3: fasten by sewing; do needlework [syn: sew, run up, sew   together
         , stitch]
      4: accumulate as a debt; "he chalked up $100 in the course of
         the evening" [syn: chalk up, run up]
      5: make by sewing together quickly; "run up a skirt"