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What does run up mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word run up? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see run,‎ up.
  2. To hasten to a destination.
  3. To erect hastily, as a building.
  4. (idiomatic) To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
  5. (idiomatic) To bring a flag to the top of its flag pole.
  6. (cricket) of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
  7. To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.
  8. (idiomatic) To accumulate a debt.
  9. (figuratively) To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
Noun
  1. (cricket) the action of running up; the area of the pitch used by the bowler to run up, the start of which he marks with a small marker
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