keep someone posted up

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

keep someone posted up (third-person singular simple present keeps someone posted up, present participle keeping someone posted up, simple past and past participle kept someone posted up)

  1. Dated form of keep someone posted.
    • 1887, Francis Charles Philips, A Lucky Young Woman, page 337:
      Take stock of things, and keep me posted up as to how I stand.
    • 1903, P. G. Wodehouse, Tales of St. Austin's, page 28:
      I don't know how the affair will end. Keep me posted up in the governor's symptoms, and write again soon.

References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary: "Posted up, well acquainted with the subject in question."
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