buckle up
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Verb
buckle up (third-person singular simple present buckles up, present participle buckling up, simple past and past participle buckled up)
- (transitive) To fasten with a buckle.
- 1855, Charles Dickens, The Holly-Tree
- It was eight o'clock to-morrow evening when I buckled up my travelling writing-desk in its leather case, paid my Bill, and got on my warm coats and wrappers.
- 1855, Charles Dickens, The Holly-Tree
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To fasten one's seat belt or safety belt.
- Buckle up every time you drive somewhere in a car, and make sure your passengers buckle up, too.
- Synonym: belt up
Translations
to fasten one's seat belt or safety belt
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See also
- buckle down