split up
See also: split-up
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split up (third-person singular simple present splits up, present participle splitting up, simple past and past participle split up)
- (intransitive, idiomatic, Of a group of people) Cease to be together, break apart from the group.
- After she left to go travelling, my girlfriend and I split up.
- The soldiers split up into smaller squadrons to search the building.
- (transitive) separate, disassociate, cause to come apart.
- The brothers never behaved in class when they were together, so we had to split them up for the exam.
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split up (not comparable)
- Divided or separated.
- (slang, obsolete) Of a person: having long legs.
- 1913, S. A. Mussabini, Charles Ranson, The Complete Athletic Trainer, page 17:
- He should preferably be tall, weighty, well split up in the legs (especially from the hip-joint to the knee), neatly turned at the knee and ankle joints […]
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- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary