mug up

mug up
verb
study intensively, as before an exam
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I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam

Syn:
cram, ↑grind away, ↑drum, ↑bone up, ↑swot, ↑get up, ↑swot up, ↑bone
Derivationally related forms: ↑swot (for: ↑swot), ↑crammer (for: ↑cram)
Hypernyms: ↑study, ↑hit the books
Verb Group: ↑cram
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

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Somebody ——s something PP

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[verb]
study, bone up on (informal), burn the midnight oil (informal), cram (informal), swot (Brit. informal)

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ˌmug ˈup [intransitive/transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they mug up he/she/it mugs up present participle mugging up past tense mugged up past participle mugged up] british informal phrasal verb
to quickly learn something or check that you know it, for example before an examination
Thesaurus: to study, or to study hardsynonym university and college studentshyponym
Main entry: mug

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mug up [phrasal verb]
mug up or mug (something) up or mug up (something) or mug up on (something) Brit, informal : to study or try to learn a lot of information quickly for a test, exam, etc.

He's going to mug up for the exam.

She had better mug up before she interviews him.

He mugged up on his French for the trip.

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Main Entry:mug

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