Meaning of search up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To obtain something, especially information, about (something) from a source (especially electronic sources).
   informal
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see search, up.

Examples

“The losing of keys can be largely prevented by requiring the use of key chains attached to the bunch of keys and also by informing the student that they are charged one dollar each if lost. They have the advantage that they are much more easily opened, while if the combination be forgotten the instructor has to search it up in the records.”

“I recommend a booklet by Laurie Riley on preventing harp related injury - can't remember the title just now but I'll try to search it up.”

“I searched up ghost people who knew what to do in a ghost case”

“Any other cool facts about your town/state? Bremerton: L. Ron Hubbard grew up and wrote his early works here. Nobody ever mentions this, probably because they fear the town becoming a Mecca for Scientologists. Seattle: Search it up, the whole town is one cool fact.”

“So I went onto online, to search up the number 17. I thought the information for this number was and is fascinating. It has importance in both of the math realm and Biblically.”

“If you were to search up the word happiness in a dictionary, your results would be something like "the state of being happy" or "joy".”

“So I spent a good couple of hours (it seems) in searching up some firewood, mostly wood chips and twigs, but I collected quite a pile.”

“I haven't been seeing her around lately,” G.G. chimed. “She too busy with school and bein' in her books. She gonna come in here and head straight to her room and lock her door, probably studying or being online searching up shit,” T.T. said.”

“So, there I am on a popular retail website searching up tiki torches and seriously, I'm like, Why are all these tiki torches sold out? . . . This is very strange. This was the Wednesday before Charlottesville.”

“In line 14, the mother again reiterates her original query, and immediately proposes a strategy for finding out: "search it up please" (line 16).”

“She instructs: “Then you’re going to put [the eyelash curler] down and use your phone … to search up what’s happening in China”

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