drag up
verb
Forms drags up dragging up dragged up
- verb To remind people of (something, usually unpleasant, from the past). “I don't know why John had to drag up the incident of the car accident. It was really embarrassing.”
- verb (transitive, figurative) To educate reluctant pupils.
- verb (transitive, UK, figurative) To raise a child with insufficient discipline or instillment of social etiquette.
- verb Of a man: to dress in women's clothing for entertainment.
- verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drag, up.
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