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man up

verb

  1. informal.
    intr, adverb to adopt a stereotypically masculine approach or course of action


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A teenage girl in New Jersey has won a campaign to man up the Easy-Bake Oven.

If you do have an oops moment and wind up with a surprise love child, just man up and admit it.

I said no again,” Burke remembers, “but then after a few days I thought maybe I should just man up and step up to the plate.

This year my cousin let one of her daughters torment one of her sons with fake threats from The Man Up North.

But when you look at the out-of-the-gate failures of shows like The Playboy Club, How to Be a Gentleman, Free Agents, and Man Up!

Here the freight thief was placed in the custody of the local constable, who locked the man up in the garret of his own home.

He had beaten the man up in a calm, methodical and perfectly business-like manner.

In reference to Mr. Lopez she would have said, if interrogated, that she had taken the man up in obedience to her husband.

If you were to back a man up by your wealth in an expensive contest, I think it would be unconstitutional.

Algernon shrugged disgustedly, and was giving the old man up as a bad business, when Anthony altered his manner.

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