Meaning of ring up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To telephone; to call someone on the telephone.
   idiomatic, transitive
2. To enter (a payment) into a cash register, or till in a shop, or record a credit- or debit-card payment.
   transitive
3. To record the payment of.
   transitive
4. To make an adverse official decision concerning (a person).
   transitive
5. To rouse by the ringing of a bell.
6. To strikeout a batter and thereby send him or her back to the dugout.

Examples

“Malone at once rang up Lord Roxton, and soon heard the familiar voice.”

“"I was just going ashore to ring you up."”

“"I'm going to ring up the doctor in a moment, but remember, that partnership has got to be signed first."”

“Just ring up these items first. You can ring up those separately.”

“He took out his wallet and gave her a pound note and a ten-shilling note. She rang up the sum on the till, snapped the notes into their little clip, shut the drawer.”

“I'll take these. You can ring me up.”

“The cashier took a long time to ring him up.”

“Munson appeared to have taken Billy's exhortation on aggressiveness to heart. Umpire Jim McKean rung him up on strikes at one point in the game, so Thurman bumped him in anger.”

“Tommy Connolly, perhaps recalling Jones's earlier argumentativeness, rung him up — too close to take.”

“Marcos had rung him up on trumped-up charges. From his cell, Aquino led the People's Power movement and ran for president despite being incarcerated.”

“During the game I gave the coach of one team, St. Ann's, a technical foul for coming on the court during the action. When I rung him up one of his players took the basketball and slammed it to the court, it bounced about 15 feet high. Bingo, another technical.”

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