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buckle up en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (transitive) To fasten with a buckle.
   • It was eight o'clock to-morrow evening when I buckled up my travelling writing-desk in its leather case, paid my Bill, and got on my warm coats and wrappers. 1855, Charles Dickens, “The Holly-tree. Third Branch—The Bill”, in Christmas Stories […] (The Works of Charles Dickens; XV), de luxe edition, London: Chapman and Hall, published 1881, →OCLC, page 63:
2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To fasten one's seat belt or safety belt.
   • Buckle up every time you drive somewhere in a car, and make sure your passengers buckle up, too.
3. (broadly, idiomatic, imperative, intransitive, usually) To get ready, to prepare oneself.
   • So buckle up for what's coming, readers! 2019 February 27, Robert Kirkman, Outcast By Kirkman & Azaceta #39, Image Comics:

Forms

Relateds

buckle down

Synonyms

belt up

Translations (14)

cs připoutat se (to fasten one’s seat belt or safety belt) · it allacciarsi impegnarsi (to fasten one’s seat belt or safety belt) · pl zapinać pasy (to fasten one’s seat belt or safety belt) · sv spänna fast sig (to fasten one’s seat belt or safety belt) · pl zapiąć pasy (to fasten one’s seat belt or safety belt) · fr s'attacher (to fasten one’s seat belt or safety belt) · tr emniyet kemerini bağlamak (to fasten one’s seat belt or safety belt) · sv använda/fästa säkerhetsbälte (to fasten one’s seat belt or safety belt) · de (sich) anschnallen (to fasten one’s seat belt or safety belt) · zh 繫上安全帶 /系上安全带 (to fasten one’s seat belt or safety belt) · fi kiinnittää turvavyö (to fasten one’s seat belt or safety belt) · es abrochar el cinturón (to fasten one’s seat belt or safety belt) · pt colocar o cinto (to fasten one’s seat belt or safety belt) · pt colocar o cinto de segurança (to fasten one’s seat belt or safety belt)