Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

collect-'em-up

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English

Syllables: col-lec-t-'em-up
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A video game based around collecting items.

Example Sentences

"Mix together a shoot-’em-up, a collect-’em-up and a maze game, add sundry reaction tests to taste and you’ve got a tasty game indeed."
"It's a scrolling, platform, arcade collect-'em-up adventure which shows off the SNES well, and not one you'll complete on the first couple of attempts!"
"In the beginning there were no genres. There was only a small number of games, most of which looked very different. As more games appeared you could perhaps begin to classify them: spaceship games, collect-'em-ups, and so on."

Etymology

Modelled on earlier shoot-'em-up and beat-'em-up.

Inflected Forms

collect-'em-ups (plural)

Synonyms

collectathon

Questions

What does collect-'em-up mean?: A video game based around collecting items.
Where does collect-'em-up come from?: Modelled on earlier shoot-'em-up and beat-'em-up.

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