let-up

See also: letup and let up

English

Etymology

Deverbal from let up.

Noun

let-up (plural let-ups)

1. Alternative form of letup.

   It rained for a week with no let-up.

   • 1960 April, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 268:

     […] the uphill minimum speeds of 66 m.p.h. at Tring, 68 at Roade and 72 at Kilsby Tunnel, no less than the maximum of 85 m.p.h. near Cheddington and of 79 on the level at Weedon, clearly indicated that there was no let-up anywhere.

   • 2022 January 26, Tom Allett, “A gateway to freight growth”, in RAIL, number 949, page 48:

     There's no let-up in the ship-bound sector.

References

• “let-up”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• -tuple, plute, tuple