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Definition of step up
step up
verb
- to get in someone's face to show that you are not scared of another person.
Why don't you step up?!
Citation from "The Collection", 30 Rock (TV), Season 2 Episode 3 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.Last edited on Oct 25 2011. Submitted by ashley from Altus, OK, USA on Jun 05 1999.
- to rise to a challenge.
Citation from article title, The Washington Post, Lisa de Moraes, April 18, 2010 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.Last edited on Oct 11 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 11 2010.
verb - transitive
- to increase or improve.
Citation from "Begin the Begin", Covert Affairs (TV), Season 2 Episode 1 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
Citation from "Sheesh! Cab, Bob", Bob's Burgers (TV), Season 1 Episode 6 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
Citation from "Bill And Gary's Excellent Adventure", Alphas (TV), Season 1 Episode 6 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: to increase.
Last edited on Feb 22 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jun 10 2011.
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Other terms relating to 'to increase': | |
| Definitions include: to break or ruin. | |
| Definitions include: to increase the speed at which something operates. | |
| Definitions include: to increase very quickly. | |
| Definitions include: to increase the sexiness. | |
| Definitions include: to increase the intensity of something. | |
| Definitions include: to increase. | |
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Other terms relating to 'step': | |
| Definitions include: To have sex with a fellow addict in a 12-step program. This is AA lingo. | |
| Definitions include: diarrhea. | |
| Definitions include: suffering a bout of diarrhea so chronic that you only manage a scream and 2 steps before it starts to run down your leg. | |
| Definitions include: the act of racing to a bathroom while not defecating (specifically: diarrhea) in one's pants. | |
| Definitions include: diarrhea. | |
| Definitions include: To act like you want to engage in a fight, but then back down once the other person fights back. | |
| Definitions include: diarrhea. | |
| Definitions include: stuff happens just don't cause oh the situation. | |
| Definitions include: to "step up" to a fight. | |
| Definitions include: literally, to step away. | |
| Definitions include: to dilute illegal drugs. | |
| Definitions include: to flatulate. | |
| Definitions include: to flatulate. | |
| Definitions include: to drive quickly. | |
| Definitions include: to cheat on one's significant other. | |
Other terms relating to 'up': | |
| Definitions include: a warning that one or more law enforcement officers are near. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: to misbehave. | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up." | |
| Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc. | |
| Definitions include: doing something emphatically. | |
| Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant. | |
| Definitions include: to increase. | |
| Definitions include: to contribute one's share. | |
| Definitions include: to mess up. | |
| Definitions include: 1. To be highly intoxicated on drugs and/or alcohol | |
| Definitions include: to make something like ass. | |
| Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird". | |
| Definitions include: stupid. | |
| Definitions include: strange / stupid. | |
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