head up

verb

transitive verb

1

: to close (as a barrel) at the head or with a head

2

: head vt 4

intransitive verb

1

: head entry 3 vi 3a

2

: to come to an apex : find a head

a bureaucracy that headed up in the king

—W. P. Webb

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