Meanings
verblash up (third-person singular simple present lashes up, present participle lashing up, simple past and past participle lashed up)
present singular third person lashes up · participle present lashing up · participle past lashed up · past lashed up
- informaltransitiveTo construct in a shoddy, makeshift manner.
Of things not properly belonging to the room, there was a hammock lashed up, and thrown upon the floor in one corner; […]
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLCSynonyms: jury-rig
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo construct in a shoddy, makeshift manner.
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