phone up

phone up (third-person singular simple present phones up, present participle phoning up, simple past and past participle phoned up)

1. (ambitransitive) To phone; to contact by telephone.
   • 1994, Jill Mansell, chapter 14, in Sheer Mischief, London: Headline, published 2001, →ISBN, page 118:

     ‘I don’t believe it!’ cried Maxine, who had only phoned up in order to relieve her own boredom and have a good moan about Serena.

2. (transitive) To order by telephone.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "If we can get his bolster-cover round his arms and then 'phone up a stomach-pump, we'll give the old dear the supper of his life."

• call
• give a ring
• phone
• ring