Definition of "tied up" []

• Occupied; busy (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of tie up. (verb)

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• "Cary and Roy Patterson got it tied up and Cary hurried off to tell us the story."
• "I saw the pier where we had tied up the pilgrim ship when the Jakills and I first discovered the city."
• "In Port Fourchon harbor, the service vessel Joe Griffin was tied up at the Halliburton slip."