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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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.
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Kelli Fadroski, Orange County Register, 3 Apr. 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
Kelli Fadroski, Orange County Register, 3 Apr. 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 Apr. 2024.
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