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Definition of lawyer up
lawyer up
verb
- to retain legal counsel.
Citation from "Not for Nothing", Life (TV, 2008), Season 2 Episode 4 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: the law (related to).
Last edited on Oct 19 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 21 2009.
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| Definitions include: acronym for "I am a lawyer". | |
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| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: to misbehave. | |
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| 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". | |
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