beam up

verb

To teleport (someone or something) using a (fictional) device, especially from the surface of a planet to an orbiting starship.

Meanings

verbbeam up (third-person singular simple present beams up, present participle beaming up, simple past and past participle beamed up)

present singular third person beams up · participle present beaming up · participle past beamed up · past beamed up

  1. transitiveliteratureTo teleport (someone or something) using a (fictional) device, especially from the surface of a planet to an orbiting starship.
  2. intransitiveliteratureTo be teleported, or to teleport oneself, in this manner.
  3. intransitiveTo appear suddenly, as if by teleport.
  4. slangTo get high on drugs, especially crack cocaine.

    Pookie: "They call it the "Enterprise Room", man, because it's for people who wanna be beamed up to Scotty."

    1991, New Jack City
    1 more example

    Crack cocaine done gave straight-up pimping a nosebleed in the ghetto. 'Specially when crack hoes be trickin for two or three dollars, just to get enough to beam up, how you gon charge a John a hundred or two hundred bucks?

    2004, Teddy Hayes, Blood Red Blues, →ISBN, page 75

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Origin

From the Star Trek franchise.

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Chicago

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