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Definition of "tie up" [tie up]
- To secure with rope, string, etc. (verb)
- To occupy, detain, keep busy, or delay. (verb)
- To complete, finish, or resolve. (verb)
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Use "tie up" in a sentence
- "I could take out the wife while you get the tuxedo, tie up your pops, cut up some magazines, and make a note for the police—"
- "Misfile documents, tie up the phones, flirt with delivery boys?"
- "It was a string of plastic wild-West storefronts just the right size for jointed plastic cowboy doll Johnny West and his sidekicks to live in and tie up their horses in front of."