phone up

phone up (third-person singular simple present phones up, present participle phoning up, simple past and past participle phoned up)

1. (transitive) To phone; to contact by telephone.
2. (transitive) To order by telephone.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "If we can get his bolster-cover round his arms and then 'phone up a stomach-pump, we'll give the old dear the supper of his life."

• call
• give a ring
• phone
• ring