answer up

Definitions

1. 1

   To come forth with a prompt answer.

   • "Answer up, Tom," but Tom didn't answer up. So he said it again, and Tom didn't answer up again; and come to look, there warn't anything there but the mule—Tom was gone.
   • Come now, if you don't answer up at once it will be too late, "for I shall run you right to the station. What happened to the man who went overboard?"
   • “Mavis?” he called out. When she didn't answer, he called again. “Mavis, goddang it, answer up.” “That you, Carl?” she called back from the dugout.

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