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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Come the resulting throw-in, PSG then squeeze up and press. Liam Tharme, New York Times, 11 July 2025 Some squeeze up against the walls; others flow onto the front steps on the streets of Lavapiés, a gentrifying Madrid neighborhood. Erika Page, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 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

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“Squeeze up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/squeeze%20up. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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