SQUARE UP meaning: Settle debts or resolve differences

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square up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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square up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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square up: Encyclopedia

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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

square up, square up, square up, square up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
square up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (square up)

▸ verb:  to get ready for a fight
▸ verb:  to adopt a fighting stance
▸ verb:  to face (someone) in a contest
▸ verb:  to pay back money that is owed
▸ verb:  (transitive, machining, die making) To mill (blocks, inserts, etc) into precisely square condition.

Similar:

square off, jog, settle, even up, determine, square, pad up, measure swords, man up, bout, more...

Types:

settle, pay, reconcile, clear, more...

Phrases:

square up to, making things square up, square things up, time to square up in the ring, more...

Adjectives:

fighting, game, mano a mano, ding-dong, fighty, battle, just, pugilistic, battel, gladiate, fistic

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