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pattern up en · VERB
Pronunciation
Meanings
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(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:
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(Multicultural-London-English, transitive) To bring into line.
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(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
Synonyms
fix · correct · sort out