tool up

verb

To furnish with equipment.

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Meanings

verbtool up (third-person singular simple present tools up, present participle tooling up, simple past and past participle tooled up)

present singular third person tools up · participle present tooling up · participle past tooled up · past tooled up

  1. informaltransitiveTo furnish with equipment.
  2. informalintransitiveTo arm oneself with a weapon, especially a gun.

    “Everyone bally [balaclava]^([sic]) up, tool up,” said one man. “Let’s show the fucking media that we’re not a fucking pushover, that no more fucking foreigners are allowed into this poxy country.”

    2023 November 24, Rory Carroll, “‘Government is not listening’: anger over immigration spills into riot on Dublin’s streets”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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