bell up

English

Verb

bell up (third-person singular simple present bells up, present participle belling up, simple past and past participle belled up)

  1. (slang, UK) To make a phone call.
    He belled me up last week.
  2. (intransitive, of a plume of smoke, etc.) To form the shape of a bell.
    The smoke belled up toward the horizon.
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