chime up

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Perhaps confusion of chime in and pipe up.

Verb[edit]

chime up (third-person singular simple present chimes up, present participle chiming up, simple past and past participle chimed up)

  1. (nonstandard) To speak suddenly; to make an unexpected contribution to a conversation.