turtle up (English, verb)
expansion: turtle up (third-person singular simple present turtles up, present participle turtling up, simple past and past participle turtled up)
Senses:
glosses: To be defensive or hypervigilant; to adopt a defensive posture; to avoid conflict
tags: idiomatic
intransitive
Forms:
form: turtles up
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: turtling up
tags: participle
present
form: turtled up
tags: participle
past
form: turtled up
tags: past