serve up

phrasal 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

The couple, who documented their family life on USA Network reality shows, had been in prison since January 2023, serving up to 10 years for using fraudulent loans to defraud community banks in Georgia. —Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 29 May 2025

The second reliever to follow him, Calvin Faucher, served up the 2-0 belt-high cutter on the outer third of the plate that Machado sent 408 feet to left field. —Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2025

There aren’t many multitudes to Della, a spry North Carolinian serving up cakes with gallons of sugary-sweet Southern charm, a side order of smiles always free. —David John Chávez, Mercury News, 22 May 2025

It’s served up many orgasms for me and has gotten me out of some serious slumps. —Natalie Arroyo Camacho, StyleCaster, 22 May 2025

Rhymes for serve up

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