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Spear Up

Definition: Spear Up

Spear Up

Verb

1. Thrust up like a spear; "The branch speared up into the air".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Spear Up

Synonym: spear (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Spear Up

Etymologies containing "spear up": Upspear. (references)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Spear Up

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
britney dress spears up	124
britney dress game spears up	54
britney make spears up without	27
britney pic slip spears up	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Spear Up

Language		Translations for "spear up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		mered (stand up, stare at, to spear up), feltornyosodik (to spear up), felmered (to spear up). (various references)

Pig Latin		earspay upay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Spear Up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: paupers.
	Words within the letters "a-e-p-p-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: papers, pareus, pauper, pauser, sapper, supper, uppers.
	-2 letters: apers, apres, asper, aures, paper, pares, pareu, parse, pause, pears, perps, prase, praus, preps, presa, pupae, pupas, purse, rapes, reaps, repps, spare, spear, sprue, super, supra, upper, urase, ureas, ursae.
	-3 letters: aper, apes, apse, ares, arse, ears, eras, paps, pare, pars, pase, pear, peas, peps.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-p-p-r-s-u"
	+2 letters: gunpapers, papyruses, pauperism, peripatus, priapuses, suppurate, uppercase.
	+3 letters: applauders, curlpapers, pauperisms, pauperizes, popularise, propagules, superplane, supersharp, supplanter, suppurated, suppurates, tropopause, unstrapped, uppercased, uppercases, upperparts.
	+4 letters: apparatuses, paperbounds, peripatuses, perpetuates, popularised, popularises, popularizes, pourparlers, prepurchase, rapporteurs, repopulates, semipopular, superplanes, superplayer, superweapon, supplanters, supportable, suppressant, suppurative, tropopauses, uppercasing.
	+5 letters: appressorium, appurtenants, mousetrapped, perpetuators, pneumographs, popularities, popularizers, prepurchased, prepurchases, purplehearts, sparkplugged, superpatriot, superplastic, superplayers, superposable, superspecial, superweapons, suppressants.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet

5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography

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