Definition of lawyer up

lawyer up

verb

• to retain legal counsel.

                                                                                       
  
  Citation from "Not for Nothing", Life (TV, 2008), Season 2 Episode 4 censored in hope of resolving 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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Other terms relating to 'the law (related to)':
lawyered up	Definitions include: to retain an attorney or attorneys
YANAL	Definitions include: acronym for "you are not a lawyer."
beak	Definitions include: nose.
b*tch	Definitions include: An acronym has been invented for the term, but long after the term entered use: "Beautiful Intellectuals That Cause Hard-ons."
IAAL	Definitions include: acronym for "I am a lawyer".
IANAL	Definitions include: acronym for "I am not a lawyer."
mouthpiece	Definitions include: Older slang term used to refer to one's "lawyer" or "attorney"
IANYL	Definitions include: acronym for "I am not your lawyer".
TINLA	Definitions include: acronym for "this is not legal advice".
throw the book at	Definitions include: to prosecute to the full extent of the law.
CSI effect, the	Definitions include: the effect whereby jurors in criminal trials believe scientist expert witnesses because the expert witnesses remind them of characters in television crime dramas like "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation".
SODDI	Definitions include: acronym for "some other dude did it".
IANACL	Definitions include: acronym for "I am not a constitutional lawyer".
legalese	Definitions include: pejorative term for the formal language used in legal speech and legal documents.

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Other terms relating to 'lawyer':
IAAL	Definitions include: acronym for "I am a lawyer".
IANACL	Definitions include: acronym for "I am not a constitutional lawyer".
IANAL	Definitions include: acronym for "I am not a lawyer."
IANYL	Definitions include: acronym for "I am not your lawyer".
lawyered up	Definitions include: to retain an attorney or attorneys
YANAL	Definitions include: acronym for "you are not a lawyer."
Other terms relating to 'up':
6 up	Definitions include: a warning that one or more law enforcement officers are near.
ace up (one's) sleeve	Definitions include: a secret advantage.
act up	Definitions include: to misbehave.
AFU	Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up."
all done up	Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc.
all up in	Definitions include: doing something emphatically.
amped up	Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant.
amp up	Definitions include: to increase.
ante up	Definitions include: to contribute one's share.
arse up	Definitions include: to mess up.
as f*cked up as a football bat	Definitions include: 1. To be highly intoxicated on drugs and/or alcohol
*ss up	Definitions include: to make something like ass.
ate up	Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird".
ate up with stupid	Definitions include: stupid.
ate up with the dumb *ss	Definitions include: strange / stupid.
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