corner up (English, verb)
expansion: corner up (third-person singular simple present corners up, present participle cornering up, simple past and past participle cornered up)
Senses:
glosses: To form one or more corners.
tags: dated
intransitive
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To sell drugs on a street corner; to go to such a spot to sell drugs.
tags: slang
glosses: To be in a corner (of a room); to trap or be trapped by assailants in the corner of a room.
tags: informal
glosses: to corner or be cornered (To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment).
tags: broadly
informal
Forms:
form: corners up
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cornering up
tags: participle
present
form: cornered up
tags: participle
past
form: cornered up
tags: past