HEAD UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does head up mean? 

• HEAD UP (verb)
  The verb HEAD UP has 1 sense:

1. be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel

  Familiarity information: HEAD UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEAD UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

head; head up

Context example:

This student heads the class

Hypernyms (to "head up" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Verb group:

head; lead (travel in front of; go in advance of others)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Burns, I insist on your holding your head up; I will not have you before me in that attitude, &c. &c.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It paused, head up, close by a clump of spruce trees, and with sight and scent studied the outfit of the watching men.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

After that, she covered her head up with her apron again and had another laugh about Mr. Barkis.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I'm a plain man; rum and bacon and eggs is what I want, and that head up there for to watch ships off.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The cabin still rang with his voice, as he stood there, swaying, his bronzed face shining, his head up and dominant, and his eyes, golden and masculine, intensely masculine and insistently soft, flashing upon Maud at the door.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

With this my aunt tied her head up in a handkerchief, with which she was accustomed to make a bundle of it on such occasions; and I escorted her home.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He had ceased from his growling and stood, head up, looking into their faces.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Had he merely stood over the meat, head up and glowering, White Fang would ultimately have slunk away.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"Yes, but listen," said Myrtle Wilson, nodding her head up and down, "at least you didn't marry him."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)