book up
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[edit]Verb
[edit]book up (third-person singular simple present books up, present participle booking up, simple past and past participle booked up)
- (transitive) To reserve or book all of something, for example by purchasing all the tickets.
- (intransitive) To have all of its tickets or reservations purchased.
- Flights are beginning to book up as people flee the region.
- (chess, slang) To study opening lines in great detail in order to gain an advantage.
- 2022 May 8, Colin McGourty, “Superbet Classic 3: Aronian’s great escape, Deac beats Rapport”, in Chess24[1]:
- There would be more extraordinary clock goings on in the big game of the day, Aronian-Firouzja, which began by giving a partial answer to the question of what Alireza Firouzja had been doing for the last five months. He’d been booking up on some old theory!
- (transitive, slang) To study or learn (something).