“testicles” and “<span class="searchmatch">spring</span> (season)”. By surface analysis, Cantonese <span class="searchmatch">up</span> + <span class="searchmatch">what</span> + <span class="searchmatch">spring</span>. <span class="searchmatch">up</span> <span class="searchmatch">what</span> <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> (Hong Kong, colloquial, slightly vulgar) <span class="searchmatch">What</span> the hell...
trailing <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> truss <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> steel underspring Union <span class="searchmatch">Springs</span> upholstery coil <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> uprighting <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> upspring <span class="searchmatch">up</span> <span class="searchmatch">what</span> <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> Valley <span class="searchmatch">Springs</span> valve <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> valve...
doing them <span class="searchmatch">what</span> has gets throw things at the wall and see <span class="searchmatch">what</span> sticks to <span class="searchmatch">what</span> do I owe the pleasure to <span class="searchmatch">what</span> end <span class="searchmatch">up</span> <span class="searchmatch">what</span> <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> wha <span class="searchmatch">what</span> about <span class="searchmatch">what</span> about the...
study (intransitive) To be imprisoned. Synonym: go under He went <span class="searchmatch">up</span> in the <span class="searchmatch">spring</span>. (cricket) To appeal for a dismissal. (intransitive) To go bankrupt;...
financing dried <span class="searchmatch">up</span>. 2008, Adele, First Love: This love has dried <span class="searchmatch">up</span> and stayed behind (intransitive) To stop talking because one has forgotten <span class="searchmatch">what</span> one was going...
1933, Richard Curle, Corruption, page 75: But <span class="searchmatch">what</span> I do think is that there's likely to be a regular flare-<span class="searchmatch">up</span> soon. And how can one tell where that may end...
his speech here, he referred to <span class="searchmatch">what</span> his family had suffered in Kansas, without ever giving the least vent to his pent-<span class="searchmatch">up</span> fire. Repressed or suppressed...
“make-<span class="searchmatch">up</span>” her face, according to the approved beauty standards. 1999, Steve Rideout, “Tiddlywinks”, in Don’t Go <span class="searchmatch">Up</span> a Windmill: Poems, Blue <span class="searchmatch">Springs</span>, Mo.:...
jig's <span class="searchmatch">up</span> one's jig is <span class="searchmatch">up</span> one's jig's <span class="searchmatch">up</span> the jig's <span class="searchmatch">up</span> Jig is an old term for a lively dance, and in the Elizabethan era the word also became slang for a...
energy-storage mechanism. I wound <span class="searchmatch">up</span> the clock. Your pocket watch will run for a long time if you wind <span class="searchmatch">up</span> the <span class="searchmatch">spring</span> all the way. 1921 June, Margery Williams...