new up

present singular third person news up · participle present newing up · participle past newed up · past newed up

1. informaltransitivecomputingTo create (an object) by calling its constructor.

   If an exception occurs trying to new up bar1 or bar2, the TFoo part of the object won't have changed […]

   2000, Robert C. Martin, More C++ gems

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   So you just new up the object you want and once its internal reference count drops to 0, the language deletes it (during a free time as a background thread).

   2003, Jonathan Hoyle, “Pointers?”, in comp.lang.basic.realbasic (Usenet)

   Synonyms: new