serve up

verb

served up; serving up; serves up

: to give (food) to someone at a meal, in a restaurant, etc.

That little restaurant serves up some of the best Indian food in the city.

—sometimes used figuratively

The movie serves up a lot of laughs.

Examples of serve up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

What Trump is serving up is precisely the kind of paternalistic nonsense that women have fought against for the past century, now applied to nation states. — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026

Working alongside them, Canada Goose curated an integrated protective gear system designed to perform in whatever conditions the Atlantic serves up. — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026

Lopez has been serving up plenty of Italian sartorial drama over the past few days. — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 23 Sep. 2026

Newcomb and Hudson were the hit hard, with Newcomb serving up a game-tying two-run home run to Hao-Yu Lee and Hudson giving up four hits in one-third of an inning, including a two-run home run to Riley Greene. — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for serve up

• buttercup
• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup