'run up' definitions:

Definition of 'run up'

(from WordNet)
verb
Pile up (debts or scores)
verb
Raise; "hoist the flags"; "hoist a sail" [syn: hoist, run up]
verb
Fasten by sewing; do needlework [syn: sew, run up, sew together, stitch]
verb
Accumulate as a debt; "he chalked up $100 in the course of the evening" [syn: chalk up, run up]
verb
Make by sewing together quickly; "run up a skirt"

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