to queue up
3
3.1
- phrasal verb
- /kjuː ʌp/
- UK
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- OK, So I have to queue up to get on a ride.
- people queue up
- fans queue up
- queue up to buy
They got licensees signing up, almost queuing up just because of the Apple name.
- They got licensees signing up, almost queuing up just because of the Apple name.
- Anyway, I queue up for what feels like a Millennium.
- Not the pills because I was a bit slow, not the pills as I saw people queuing up to buy bottles of water.
- And so the, the male porn stars booths, there are no lines, like no one's queuing up.
- It was from a gang in South London and we got on like a house on fire and I was in the I was in the canteen queuing up for my food.
Examples
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Meanwhile, we are queuing up outside and have to wait.
Blog text (18) -
We went around sunset, queued up, went on the glass slide and then to the glass observatory.
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Tell that to people queuing up at food banks.
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You have to queue up like everyone and wait.
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Anyway, I queue up for what feels like a Millennium.
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Some guests simply queue up for their rides.
Blog text (8) -
When customers queue up for a new Apple (AAPL) product, he's the analyst who goes to the line and counts heads.
Blog text (31) -
The rest were tired of queuing up for buses that never came—or having to ride on the roofs of the ones that did.
Academic text (2007) -
Saturday's midmorning address, which had some ticketholders queueing up well before 6 a.m. for good seats, came after a Friday afternoon talk in which the Dalai Lama addressed the college's students, faculty, and staff.
Blog text (21) -
Visitors queue up at the entrance of the amusement park, eager to enjoy the rides.
Synonyms
115
2.6
Put people or things in a straight row
76
1.7
To wait in a line of people for your turn
26
2.1
To wait in a line to get something
20
3.4
To form or join a line while waiting
17
2.0
Be patient and let others go before you until it is your turn
Join the back of a line of people waiting
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'to add or arrange items into a queue' is directly compositional from 'queue' (an ordered list) plus the particle 'up' indicating placement/movement into that list. This is a productive, cross-linguistic pattern (compare 'line up' / equivalents), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reasonably infer the meaning.
Etymology
Queue up comes from the simple image of people standing one after another in a line, like a single 'queue' or 'tail', and the up part shows joining that line. So queue up means 'to form a line' and wait your turn.