ring up

About 0.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To telephone; to call someone on the telephone.
2. verb To enter (a payment) into a cash register, or till in a shop, or record a credit- or debit-card payment.

   Just ring up these items first. You can ring up those separately.

3. verb To record the payment of.

   I'll take these. You can ring me up.

4. verb To make an adverse official decision concerning (a person).
5. verb To rouse by the ringing of a bell.
6. verb To strikeout a batter and thereby send him or her back to the dugout.

Similar words

call up phone up give someone a ring call phone ring in dial up call in dial put in

Word family

rang up ringing up rings up rung up