phone up

Verb

Meaning

(transitive) To phone; to contact by telephone.

(transitive) To order by telephone.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

call ring phone call in call out give a ring

Examples

I lived in New York for a long time. Right after college I went there. So I got my first cell phone in New York. Back when you would flip the phone up. Way back when. Stephanie Beatriz

Everybody's got their phone up and everybody's taking recordings and posting it on YouTube and whatever and sending it to you, and it gets shown around the world. Franklin Graham

Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. One hundred years from now, your hands will rot like dust in your grave. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic. James Altucher

Close letter words and terms

phone tapper phone tapping phone tree phone zombie phone-in show phone-out