1 to wait for someone to return before you go to bed
wait up for
Don't wait up for me; I may be late.
2 Wait up!
American English used to tell someone to stop, so that you can talk to them or go with them:
'Wait up!' he called.
listen up
used to get people's attention so they can hear what you are going to say:
Hey everybody, listen up!
call up
1 informal American English to telephone someone
call somebody ↔ up
He called me up to tell me about it.
I'm going to call up and cancel my subscription.
2 call something ↔ up
if you call up information on a computer, you make the computer show it to you:
I called up their website, but it didn't have the information I was looking for.
3 call somebody ↔ up
British English to officially order someone to join the army, navy, or air force [= draft American English]
I was called up three months after war broke out.
4 call somebody ↔ up
to choose someone for a national sports team[↪ call-up]:
Hurst was called up for the game against Mexico.
5 call something ↔ up
to produce something or make it appear:
She can call up the spirits of the dead.
clean up
1 to make a place completely clean and tidy:
We spent all Saturday morning cleaning up.
clean something ↔ up
plans to clean up the beaches
clean up after
John always expects other people to clean up after him (=to make a place clean after he has used it).
2 to wash yourself after you have got very dirty
clean yourself up
Let me just go clean myself up.
Dad's upstairs getting cleaned up.
3 clean up your act
informal to start behaving sensibly and responsibly:
Some companies could face heavy fines if they fail to clean up their act.
4 informal to win a lot of money or make a lot of money in a business deal:
He cleaned up at the races yesterday.
5 clean something ↔ up
to improve moral standards in a place or organization:
It's high time British soccer cleaned up its image.
lock up
1 to make a building safe by locking the doors, especially at night:
I'll leave you to lock up.
lock something ↔ up
Don't forget to lock up the warehouse.
2 lock something ↔ up
to put something in a safe place and lock the door, lid etc [= lock away]
3 lock somebody ↔ up
to put someone in prison [= lock away]:
Rapists should be locked up.
4 be locked up (in something)
if your money is locked up, you have put it into a business, investment etc and cannot easily move it or use it
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