mug up

They've given us the whole of "Ivanhoe" to mug up for a holiday task.

For Macdonald was essentially a scholar; he did not merely mug up notes by German commentators an hour before the lesson.

Twice he took the mug up and put it down agin without starting and asked 'em wot the little game was, but they on'y laughed.

He did his mug up in tissue paper and cotton batting and kept it locked up in his third bureau drawer.

Most of the men lighted a pipe, and one or two took a 'mug-up' from the coffee-kettle.