ring up
verb- To telephone; to call someone on the telephone.
- To enter (a payment) into a cash register, or till in a shop, or record a credit- or debit-card payment. · Just ring up these items first. You can ring up those separately.
- To record the payment of. · I'll take these. You can ring me up.· The cashier took a long time to ring him up.
- To make an adverse official decision concerning (a person).
- To rouse by the ringing of a bell.
- To strikeout a batter and thereby send him or her back to the dugout.
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