dub up

English

Verb

dub up (third-person singular simple present dubs up, present participle dubbing up, simple past and past participle dubbed up)

  1. (transitive, slang) To put someone in prison, or into their individual cell.
    Synonym: bang up
  2. (transitive, slang, archaic) To give up money; to give in to demands for money; pay up.
    • 1889, New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council, Votes & Proceedings, volume 1, page 428:
      […] he said he had given Ryan two £5 notes to keep for him, and that if he didn't dub it up he would go down for the police; he never told me that Ryan had robbed him till Wednesday.

References

  • (pay up): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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