lace up

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lace up (third-person singular simple present laces up, present participle lacing up, simple past and past participle laced up)

  1. (transitive) To fasten the laces of something.
    • 2011 February 12, Oliver Brett, “Sunderland 1 - 2 Tottenham”, in BBC:
      However, with their first genuine attack, Sunderland scored - and they did it with Tottenham needlessly down to 10 men as Gallas laced up a replacement pair of boots.
  2. (transitive) To insert (film) into a projector.
    • 2015, David Lloyd, Start the Clock and Cue the Band: A Life in Television:
      If the film arrived with minute to go, there would still be time for the technicians to lace it up []
    • 2016, Nicholas Lee, All This in 60 Minutes, page 26:
      'Well,' said Ron, 'let's lace it up on the projector anyway, we might see something.'

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