plumber up

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To botch or ruin. rare,slang,transitive
    — When a pilot no longer heeds the demands of vanity or misplaced pride; when he attempts not to salvage a plumbered-up approach with a desperate bit of squirming and jockeying, but rather shrugs it off as a well-deserved object lesson in complacency and tools around the circuit again—then he is a real pro.
  2. To work on (something) as a plumber; to equip (something) with plumbing. colloquial,rare,transitive
    — The tooth was not pulled but the dentist found a couple of cavities which he plumbered up a little.

词形变化

plumbers up present,singular,third-person plumbering up participle,present plumbered up participle,past plumbered up past
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