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pad up en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To put on batting pads preparatory to taking the field to bat.
    • Normally only one batsman is padded up and Dean Jones was listed to bat next. 1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 201:
  2. (intransitive) To put on pads to ready oneself to play American football; to play for a team.
    • He padded up for the Bears in 1997.
  3. (intransitive, slang) To put on a diaper.

Forms

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padded up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
padded up Tense=Past lexicographic
pads up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
padding up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic