What does up on mean?

up on

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 6.28 in modern English

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adj

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"The tour guide was certainly up on his history."
"Maybe you aren't up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked, pal"
"Says Sigismondi: "I don't watch [MTV]. I'm really not up on what's trendy.""
"“She was up on everything,” said the biographer A. Scott Berg. “Not just the news but every play or film or book.”"

more up on (comparative) most up on (superlative)

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