to meet up with
- phrasal verb
- Informal
- Let's meet up with our friends at the coffee shop this afternoon.
- meet up with others
It is Katie's birthday and we're meeting up with Matt King?
- It is Katie's birthday and we're meeting up with Matt King?
- And then I will go meet up with Kaya.
- Alright, so I just made it here to meet up with my friend Brett.
- I'm about to meet up with Nicole and James for some coffee.
- But I am going to meet up with Holly, so let's get going.
- So I've gone down to Devon to meet up with the team.
- So today is the first day that we are not meeting up with the guys for lunch.
- She is an extraordinary teacher that we recently met up with in Chicago.
- So he tried to go meet up with her and they caught him.
- And then I'm turning around in the same breath, meeting up with Andre.
- That's where I I meet up with my my legal team.
- So after school we'd go meet up with the cars and just have fun, right?
Examples
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So I've gone down to Devon to meet up with the team.
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But I am going to meet up with Holly, so let's get going.
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So I have just met up with Yo.
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I love this first day in England and I already met up with an Internet friend.
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Now you want me to meet up with them?
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We're actually meeting up with her this week.
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Well, it's perfect, I was on my way to meet up with my best friends...
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I'm about to meet up with the girls.
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I got invited to meet up with a bunch of moms at the local church.
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I'm about to meet up with Nicole and James for some coffee.
Synonyms
To come together with someone for the first time or by arrangement
To have a romantic relationship with someone
To meet with other people for a social event or to do something together
To meet someone and spend time talking and relaxing
To meet another person or group briefly and informally
Antonyms
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to meet someone by arrangement' is directly derivable from the constituents: 'meet' (to come together) combined with the particle 'up' (giving an informal/complete meeting sense) and 'with' marking accompaniment. This is a common phrasal-verb + preposition pattern that follows standard English composition and has clear parallels in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The phrasal verb meet up with comes from a simple image: people move to the same place to see each other, with meet (come together) and up (move to the spot). So, it means 'to meet someone by arrangement'.