adjective, noun
adjective [onlybeforenoun]
1 that you operate by turning a key or handle:
an old-fashioned wind-up gramophone
2 intended to bring sth to an end:
a wind-up speech
noun (BrE, informal) something that sb says or does in order to be deliberately annoying, especially as a joke:
Is this a wind-up?
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for wind-up is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does wind-up appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — wind-up appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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