lolly up

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.81 in modern English

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verb

British usage; Slang

"The bods who do it are grasses. They'll lolly you up as soon as look at you. […] The fucking bastards lollied me up for nicking the materials. I lost three days."
"But some straight kid turned grass — he lollied me up, as they say — and I was asked to leave the premises."

Rhyming slang, from lollipop, to rhyme with shop (“to report to the authorities”).

lollies up (present, singular) lollying up (participle, present) lollied up (participle, past) lollied up (past)

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