run up
verb
- to achieve by accumulating
Wiktionary
noun
- Alternative form of run-up.
verb
- To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
“As I was walking along the road, a man suddenly ran up to me.”
“The dog ran up under the table to get his food.”
- To approach (an event or point in time).
“We are putting on lots of special attractions as we run up to Christmas.”
- To take to a destination or before an authority.
“[…] and I took him along and ran him up to police headquarters.”
- To erect hastily, as a building.
“we wait until the palace is half-way up, and then we pay some tasty architect to run us up an ornamental mud hovel, right against it”
- To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
“I'll run you up a skirt for tomorrow evening.”
- To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole.
“Stand quietly while the honor guard runs the flag up.”
- To string up; to hang.
- Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
“He runs up... and bowls. Smashed away for four runs!”
- To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.
“Accounts of goods credited run up very fast.”
“But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees.”
- To accumulate (a debt).
“He ran up over $5,000 in unpaid bills.”
- To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
“The fence runs up along the edge of the pasture.”
- To warm up and test an airplane before a flight.
- To accumulate money, drugs, etc.
“I run me up some big bills.”
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up.
“The small boy ran up the hill.”