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change up

verb

  1. intr, adverb to select a higher gear when driving
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. baseball an unexpectedly slow ball thrown in order to surprise the batter
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

Every batter, it's a fastball for a strike or pop-up, then a change-up for a ground out.

Cooper thinks Perry needs to change up the environment for his debate prep.

“The Change-Up just seemed tired, like we had seen it before,” says the publicist.

The Change-Up, an R-rated variation of Freaky Friday, has only made $18 million during its first week of release.

I will get colored contacts so I can change up my look from time to time.

I told her she could find a change up-stairs in my room; and sent one of my girls to wait upon her.

There was no marked change up to 1861, when the War of Secession began.

The next week was not as trying to Jerry as the week before, now that he was able to make change up attic.

Then, too, they wrap your change up in paper—and some of their dress materials have quite a style of their own.

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