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PRICK UP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prick up mean?
• PRICK UP (verb)
The verb PRICK UP has 1 sense:
1. raise
Familiarity information: PRICK UP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Raise
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
Context example:
The dog pricked up his ears
Hypernyms (to "prick up" is one way to...):
erect; rear (cause to rise up)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Context examples
Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, for the business has not been over good for some years, and an extra couple of hundred would have been very handy.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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