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run up         
SINGLE BY MAJOR LAZER FEATURING PARTYNEXTDOOR AND NICKI MINAJ FROM THE ALBUM MUSIC IS THE WEAPON (2017)
Run Up (song); Run Up (Major Lazer song)
Grow, swell, increase, rise.
run up         
SINGLE BY MAJOR LAZER FEATURING PARTYNEXTDOOR AND NICKI MINAJ FROM THE ALBUM MUSIC IS THE WEAPON (2017)
Run Up (song); Run Up (Major Lazer song)
1.
If someone runs up bills or debts, they acquire them by buying a lot of things or borrowing money.
He ran up a ?1,400 bill at the Britannia Adelphi Hotel...
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron)
2.
see also run-up
run up         
SINGLE BY MAJOR LAZER FEATURING PARTYNEXTDOOR AND NICKI MINAJ FROM THE ALBUM MUSIC IS THE WEAPON (2017)
Run Up (song); Run Up (Major Lazer song)
v.
1) (d; intr.) to run up against ('to encounter') (to run up against strong competition; to run up against difficulties)
2) (D; intr.) to run up to ('to approach quickly') (she ran up to me)

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Run Up
Examples of use of run up
1. Estimates of defaults in 2008 run up to 2 million.
2. Bush in the run–up to the 2004 presidential election.
3. Passions run high in the run–up to the anniversary.
4. Violence has increased in the run–up to the election.
5. Bush in the run–up to last year‘s presidential election.