lawyer up
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.66 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To exercise one's right to legal representation; to engage the services of a lawyer.
American usage; Informal; Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "You'd better lawyer up!"
- "By the time patrol cars got to the friend's house, so had her lawyer. With her attorney running blocker, police could not even ascertain if Grubman had been driving the car, says Suffolk County district attorney James Catterson. "She was lawyered up, as we like to say.""
- "In the summer of 2019, when the boys are involved in the death of the young woman at that swimming hole, the parents of Barton Hills do what any caregivers might do, if they are rich or rich-adjacent. They lawyer up, and when this strategy fails to provide a sufficient shield between their boys and whatever they may or may not have been party to, the families up their game."
- "Whenever we do business with those guys, we lawyer up to protect ourselves."
- "And I'll bet what you hated the most was that they identified me as a co-founder of Facebook, which I am. You better lawyer up asshole, because I'm not coming back for 30%, I'm coming back for EVERYTHING."
- "By the time we finished lawyering up the agreement, we didn't want to sign it."
Usage
- American usage
- Informal
- Intransitive verb
- Transitive verb
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Law.