color up

verb

To blush (to go red).

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Meanings

verbcolor up (third-person singular simple present colors up, present participle coloring up, simple past and past participle colored up)

present singular third person colors up · participle present coloring up · participle past colored up · past colored up · alternative colour up

  1. To blush (to go red).

    Alice had already begun to colour up and was beginning to speak, when her Ladyship perceiving her displeasure, continued thus.

    1790, Jane Austen, “Jack and Alice”, in Juvenilia
  2. card gamesTo exchange a high number of low-value chips (of one color) for a lower number of higher value (of a different color), but keeping the same overall value.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
chip up
Cite this entry
APA

color up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/color%20up

MLA

“color up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/color%20up. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “color up,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/color%20up.

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