SERVE UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does serve up mean? 

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

1. provide (usually but not necessarily food)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SERVE UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide (usually but not necessarily food)

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

dish; dish out; dish up; serve; serve up

Context example:

The entertainers served up a lively show

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

cater; ply; provide; supply (give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)

Verb group:

help; serve (help to some food; help with food or drink)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "serve up"):

plank (cook and serve on a plank)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The chefs serve up the vegetables

 Context examples 

Yes, said she, he has taken the chickens which I was just going to serve up, off the dish, and has run away with them!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

This, Mrs. Crupp said, would leave her at full liberty to concentrate her mind on the potatoes, and to serve up the cheese and celery as she could wish to see it done.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

While she was making the most of it, her master came and cried: “Hurry up, Gretel, the guest is coming directly after me!” “Yes, sir, I will soon serve up,” answered Gretel.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Presently the bird came in and wanted to serve up the dinner, but he could nowhere see the cook.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)