Dictionary

phone up en · VERB

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To phone; to contact by telephone.
   • ‘I don’t believe it!’ cried Maxine, who had only phoned up in order to relieve her own boredom and have a good moan about Serena. 1994, Jill Mansell, chapter 14, in Sheer Mischief, London: Headline, published 2001, →ISBN, page 118:
2. (transitive) To order by telephone.
   • "If we can get his bolster-cover round his arms and then 'phone up a stomach-pump, we'll give the old dear the supper of his life." 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

Forms

Synonyms

ring · phone · give a ring · call

Translations (3)

fi soittaa (to contact by telephone) · fr téléphoner (to contact by telephone) · ru звонить (to contact by telephone)