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Definition of dial-up
dial-up
- To make or get something. Most likely originated in reference to ordering a pizza etc.. Popularized by using the internet (i.e.) "dial-up a website." Now has become a more universal term.
I'm gonna dial-up a cocktail.
Last edited on Oct 18 2001. Submitted by Jesse from Whitehorse, YT, Canada on Oct 18 2001.
- slow.
Hurry up honey, you're being so dial up.
Last edited on Sep 22 2005. Submitted by Linda S. from PA, USA on Sep 22 2005.
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Other terms relating to 'dial': | |
| Definitions include: to accidentally call a person on a cellphone that's in one's pocket. | |
| Definitions include: a person's face. | |
| Definitions include: to reduce in frequency or intensity. | |
| Definitions include: to reduce. | |
| Definitions include: extreme approval, great, awesome, fine or meaning to be perfect, precise or better. | |
| Definitions include: To be very proficient at a given activity. | |
| Definitions include: to vomit. | |
| Definitions include: a bore, dullard. | |
| Definitions include: to make a phone call while drunk. | |
Other terms relating to 'up': | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: to misbehave. | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up." | |
| Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc. | |
| Definitions include: doing something emphatically. | |
| Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant. | |
| Definitions include: to increase. | |
| Definitions include: to contribute one's share. | |
| Definitions include: to mess up. | |
| Definitions include: to make something like ass. | |
| Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird". | |
| Definitions include: strange / stupid. | |
| Definitions include: a situation that could end in multiple outcomes, each of which is equally likely. | |
| Definitions include: to move away from. | |
| Definitions include: to call someone to halt, particularly when the intention is to rob. | |
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