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geeze up

C1 slang inseparable intransitive
In simple words

To inject drugs directly into a vein.

Meanings

1 C1 idiomatic slang

To inject an illegal drug intravenously; British underworld slang.

"The officers found evidence that someone had been geezing up in the abandoned building."

Grammar: inseparable
Usage notes

Highly specialised British criminal and drug-culture slang. Extremely rare outside specific subcultures. 'Geeze' or 'geezer' in older British criminal slang referred to a syringe. Learners should recognise rather than use this expression.

Commonly used with

heroin drug needle fix vein

Forms

Base
geeze up
I/you/we/they
3rd person
geezes up
he/she/it
Past simple
geezed up
yesterday
Past participle
geezed up
have + pp
-ing form
geezing up
continuous

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Synonyms

shoot up inject fix mainline jab

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