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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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 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