squeeze up
phrasal verb
squeezed up; squeezing up; squeezes up
British
: to move closer together
Squeeze up, please. We need to make room for one more person.
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Some squeeze up against the walls; others flow onto the front steps on the streets of Lavapiés, a gentrifying Madrid neighborhood.
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Erika Page, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2025
Only City allow a lower proportion of these into their defensive third, which suggests Arsenal work hard to squeeze up and keep the other team away from their goal.
—Jordan Campbell, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
Here, a better, more co-ordinated, fitter team would jump on a backwards pass and squeeze up.
—Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
Zen 5 will also have a Zen 5c variant with the same design goal, likely part of how AMD managed to squeeze up to 192 cores on an Epyc Turin CPU die.
—Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PCMAG, 15 July 2024
Seeing thousands of fans jump up and down, mosh and squeeze up against the barricade to sing along live aren’t moments lost on these guys, either.
—Kelli Fadroski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
That allows surgeons to squeeze up to six or seven patients into a single day.
—Aimee Ortiz, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
Still, anyone who spends even a little time observing Washington’s glassy new high-rises squeezed up against its squat Federal piles, many built by enslaved people, will recognize Ijames’s spiritual geography: a place where history is both erased and inescapable.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 30 May 2023
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Erika Page, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2025
Only City allow a lower proportion of these into their defensive third, which suggests Arsenal work hard to squeeze up and keep the other team away from their goal.
—Jordan Campbell, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
Here, a better, more co-ordinated, fitter team would jump on a backwards pass and squeeze up.
—Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
Zen 5 will also have a Zen 5c variant with the same design goal, likely part of how AMD managed to squeeze up to 192 cores on an Epyc Turin CPU die.
—Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PCMAG, 15 July 2024
Seeing thousands of fans jump up and down, mosh and squeeze up against the barricade to sing along live aren’t moments lost on these guys, either.
—Kelli Fadroski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
That allows surgeons to squeeze up to six or seven patients into a single day.
—Aimee Ortiz, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
Still, anyone who spends even a little time observing Washington’s glassy new high-rises squeezed up against its squat Federal piles, many built by enslaved people, will recognize Ijames’s spiritual geography: a place where history is both erased and inescapable.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 30 May 2023
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“Squeeze up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/squeeze%20up. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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