lolly up

English

Etymology

Rhyming slang, from lollipop, to rhyme with shop (“to report to the authorities”).

Verb

lolly up (third-person singular simple present lollies up, present participle lollying up, simple past and past participle lollied up)

  1. (UK, slang) To inform on.
    • 2005, Noel Smith, ‎Razor Smith, A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun
      The bods who do it are grasses. They'll lolly you up as soon as look at you. […] The fucking bastards lollied me up for nicking the materials. I lost three days.
    • 2011, Richard T. Kelly, Alan Clarke:
      But some straight kid turned grass — he lollied me up, as they say — and I was asked to leave the premises.

References

  • Tony Thorne (2014) “lolly”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury
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