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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 To wait in line 🎶 To arrange to play
to queue up

to queue up

1 3.5
To add items to a list so they play or run later
  • phrasal verb
  • /kjuː ʌp/
  • Specialized
translation icon : poner en cola
  • Before starting the presentation, make sure to queue up all the slides in order.

Yeah, we got a lot of stuff queued up to promote.

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Examples

  • Can you queue up the the part where we describe how the whole thing is supposed to work?

  • I'll rely on my Social Relations team, who will have queued up the candidate, to handle that phase of recruiting as well...

    Blog text (26)

  • Yeah, we got a lot of stuff queued up to promote.

    Alex Costa

  • Instead of waiting for an answer, you can just queue up a YouTube video or a Facebook album and go right to the source.

    Blog text (8)

  • Fear not, though, as I've already got things queued up for next year.

    Blog text (18)

  • I've seen 15 of your top 50 so far, and I have another 6 queued up to watch next.

    Blog text (22)

  • OK, Audio Queue actually lets you queue up several songs and specify which song you should be playing.

  • HBO Max has kept my streaming queued up stocked all year with all kinds of amazing content.

  • To "close" the surgery, someone requested music, and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was queued up on the iPod.

    Blog text (8)

  • Without hesitation, I queue up Kerry's original phone message and relearn that the "thing" with Joe isn't working out.

    Fiction book (1994)

Synonyms

to enqueue
vsto queue up
  • Specialized
7.6

To add something to the end of a line so it is handled in order

adds or arranges items in a waiting line not limited to the end

Antonyms

to remove
∞ 1.5

To move something or someone away from a place

to skip
397 1.1

To deliberately not attend something such as a class or meeting

Surface Forms

queue up infinitive
queued up past
queued up past participle
queuing up present participle
queues up third person singular

Morphology

queue + up

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 putting items at the end of a waiting line: you add things to the queue and they wait their turn. So queue up means 'to add items to a list so they will be done or played later'.