run up

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• verb cricket of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
• verb idiomatic To bring a flag to the top of its flag pole.
• verb idiomatic To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
• verb idiomatic To accumulate a debt.
• noun cricket the action of running up; the area of the pitch used by the bowler to run up, the start of which he marks with a small marker

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• verb accumulate as a debt
• verb pile up (debts or scores)
• verb fasten by sewing; do needlework
• verb make by sewing together quickly
• verb raise