buckle up
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Pronunciation
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Verb
buckle up (third-person singular simple present buckles up, present participle buckling up, simple past and past participle buckled up)
- (transitive) To fasten with a buckle.
- 1855, Charles Dickens, “The Holly-tree. Third Branch—The Bill”, in Christmas Stories […] (The Works of Charles Dickens; XV), de luxe edition, London: Chapman and Hall, published 1881, →OCLC, page 63:
- It was eight o'clock to-morrow evening when I buckled up my travelling writing-desk in its leather case, paid my Bill, and got on my warm coats and wrappers.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To fasten one's seat belt or safety belt.
- Synonym: belt up
- Buckle up every time you drive somewhere in a car, and make sure your passengers buckle up, too.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, by extension, usually imperative) To get ready, to prepare oneself.
- 2019 February 27, Robert Kirkman, Outcast By Kirkman & Azaceta #39, Image Comics:
- So buckle up for what's coming, readers!
Translations
to fasten one’s seat belt or safety belt
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