pattern up
English
editVerb
editpattern up (third-person singular simple present patterns up, present participle patterning up, simple past and past participle patterned up)
- (MLE, transitive) To bring into line.
- (MLE, transitive, euphemistic) To inflict unlawful physical violence upon.
- 2021 March 18, Jason Evans, “Drug gang enforcer jailed for threatening to ‘pattern up’ indebted user with a knife”, in WalesOnline[1]:
- A ‘debt enforcer’ made a series of lurid threats of violence to someone who owed a drugs gang money, a court has heard.
Louis Tyler Hall warned his target he was going to “pattern him up” and “chef him up” – references to inflicting wounds with a knife – unless he paid.