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wife up

verb
  1. (of a man) to marry a woman (generally an existing girlfriend); to make a woman one’s wife (slang) · 2008 “Chris Brown Wifing Up Rihanna?”
  2. (of a man) to spend extensive or excessive time with one’s wife or girlfriend; to be under a woman’s thumb; to be whipped (slang) · Brother’s wifed up – can’t go shoot pool or nothing.
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Why, it was only last week I read in the paper how a man and his wife up west of the Island took a boy out of an orphan asylum and he set fire to the house at night--set it _on purpose_, Marilla--and nearly burnt them to a crisp in their beds.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 8 · C1

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