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pattern up en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (Multicultural-London-English) To sort oneself out; To fix up.
    • My gal so fine, pattern her. Sorry, little nigga, better pattern up. 2019 June 20, “Persian”, performed by ZieZie:
  2. (Multicultural-London-English, transitive) To bring into line.
  3. (Multicultural-London-English, euphemistic, transitive) To inflict unlawful physical violence upon.
    • A ‘debt enforcer’ made a series of lurid threats of violence to someone who owed a drugs gang money, a court has heard. Louis Tyler Hall warned his target he was going to “pattern him up” and “chef him up” – references to inflicting wounds with a knife – unless he paid. 2021 March 18, Jason Evans, “Drug gang enforcer jailed for threatening to ‘pattern up’ indebted user with a knife”, in WalesOnline:
    • And I know some people tried to pattern me up. Boy, you gotta lose weight, else we'll fatten you up. 2021, “DRIP_DROP_DRIP.wav”, performed by RJLDiablo:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
patterning up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
patterned up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
patterned up Tense=Past lexicographic
patterns up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

fix · correct · sort out