# run up

> English word · Verb

## Definitions
1. To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
2. To approach (an event or point in time).
3. To take to a destination or before an authority.
4. To erect hastily, as a building.
5. To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
6. To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole.
7. To string up; to hang.
8. Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
9. To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.
10. To accumulate (a debt).
11. To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
12. To warm up and test an airplane before a flight.
13. To accumulate money, drugs, etc.
14. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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