wedge up
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[edit]Verb
[edit]wedge up (third-person singular simple present wedges up, present participle wedging up, simple past and past participle wedged up)
- (transitive) To fill or block up with wedges.
- (intransitive, UK, prison slang) To barricade oneself in one's cell.
- 2000, Reginald Kray, A Way of Life:
- They both wedged up in his cell and refused to come out. They were hurling abuse at the screws on the other side of the door. As a result they were both shipped out to another jail the following day.