search up
verbEtymology A conflation of search with look up
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Informal To obtain something, especially information, about (something) from a source (especially electronic sources).
- The losing of keys can be largely prevented by requiring the use of key chains attached to the bunch of keys and also by informing the student that they are charged one dollar each if lost. They have the advantage that they are much more easily opened, while if the combination be forgotten the instructor has to search it up in the records.1909 October 22, “Suggestions for the construction of chemical laboratories”, in Science, volume 30, number 773, American Association for the Advancement of Science, →OCLC, page 551:
- I recommend a booklet by Laurie Riley on preventing harp related injury - can't remember the title just now but I'll try to search it up.1998 June 23, C&H Wood, “Re: harp playing & carpal tunnel”, in rec.org.sca (Usenet):
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- I searched up ghost people who knew what to do in a ghost case2009, Kieli Levin, Diana Help Me, page 10:
- Any other cool facts about your town/state? Bremerton: L. Ron Hubbard grew up and wrote his early works here. Nobody ever mentions this, probably because they fear the town becoming a Mecca for Scientologists. Seattle: Search it up, the whole town is one cool fact.2010 February 24, Hana Al Hawash, “For the love of traveling”, in The Communicator, Indiana Purdue Student Newspapers Inc., page 5:
- So I went onto online, to search up the number 17. I thought the information for this number was and is fascinating. It has importance in both of the math realm and Biblically.2011, Sandra Leigh Savage, Love Letters, page 47:
- If you were to search up the word happiness in a dictionary, your results would be something like "the state of being happy" or "joy".2012, Michelle Steven, Beyond Happiness:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see search, up.