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gen up en · VERB

Etymology

From gen, meaning information.

Meanings

1. (UK, informal, intransitive) To study in detail; to familiarize oneself with all available information.
   • So the heroic infant was able to gen up on all she needed to know about the making of bathtub gin by consulting a selection of large and impressive volumes in the reference section. 2011, Frank Key, Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke, page 19:
   • With a new EO to train and supervise, his workload was bound to increase, so he put in for overtime and spent his Sundays in the office, alone and undisturbed, so he could gen up on League Cup winners and current affairs. 2011, John Burnside, Waking Up in Toytown, →ISBN, page 40:
   • In any case, I need to be genned up for this research. 2012, Wendy Robertson, Family Ties, →ISBN:
   • Unless you are better genned up than Einstein was, the class will seeth with the rumour that you are not his equal, and you and your pions will be quickly discounted. 2012, A.J. Walton, Lectures, Tutorials and the Like, →ISBN, page 8:
   • I find the doctors are very surprised when they realise I'm genned up about my condition. 2005, Gervase Phinn, Up and Down in the Dales, →ISBN:
2. (UK, informal, transitive) To inform or teach with all relevant details; to brief.
   • She genned him up on all manner of trivialities. 2013, D.M. Samson, Ausländer, →ISBN, page 95:
   • I offered him a deal where he was to gen me up on aerobatics in return for the kudos Of being one Of the first two squadron pilots to aerobat an Anson. 2009, Goronwy Edwards, Flying to Norway, Grounded in Burma, →ISBN, page 50:
   • It was also new to be listening to talk of bribery and corruption in high places, and Michael Murray saw it as his duty to gen me up on this. 2007, Desmond FitzGerald, Many Parts, →ISBN, page 160:

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Translations (2)

pl podkuć się (Translations) · pl podkuwać się (Translations)