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couple up

verb

Definitions

  1. To put into a couple

    To put into a couple; to put into, or connect together as, a group of two.

    • It is utterly impossible for any factory in the United States to couple up 8,000 feet of hose within ten hours unless they had thirty or forty men on and have the couplings made, […]

  2. To get into pairs

    To get into pairs; to become a group of two.

    • For this next challenge, you'll need to couple up with someone.
    • By contrast, lesbians are sexually sedate. They don’t cruise sex clubs. They couple up and stay coupled, and they like cuddling and hugging more than they do serious, genitally-based sex.

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