chest up
To bump one's chest into aggressivelyTo bump one's chest into (another person) aggressively; to physically challenge or confront.
» We have to fill the war chest back up by expropriating the collaborators.
Kollaborateure müssen wir enteignen und so die Kriegskasse wieder auffüllen. — Yorwba
frpzzd · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 senses(informal)To bump one's chest into (another person) aggressively; to physically challenge or confront.
Examples
2 sentencesWe have to fill the war chest back up by expropriating the collaborators.
deKollaborateure müssen wir enteignen und so die Kriegskasse wieder auffüllen. — Yorwba
We need to expropriate the collaborators in order to fill the war chest back up.
deKollaborateure müssen wir enteignen und so die Kriegskasse wieder auffüllen. — Yorwba
Forms
chests up, chesting up, chested up, chested up| Base form | chest up · to chest up |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | chests up |
| Present participle | chesting up |
| Past simple | chested up |
| Past participle | chested up |
irregular
Phrasal verbs
2 phrasal verbsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Phrasal verbs: introduction — Because it is a phrasal verb
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.