loop up

English

Verb

loop up (third-person singular simple present loops up, present participle looping up, simple past and past participle looped up)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To form a loop by raising (something that is hanging down or descending).
   • 1914, Walter William Rouse Ball, Mathematical Recreations and Essays, page 374:

     Pass the right index from below under (i.e. on the proximal side of) the pendant palmar string and then between the left thumb and index, and with the palmar tip of the right index loop up a piece of the string handing on the back of the left hand.

   • 2002, B.J. Jordan, Classically Cursive Book 3, page 99:

     I begin at the baseline; slant up to the center, loop up to the top, then back to the gound ^[sic], going back to pass the column;

   • 2022, Shaye J. D. Cohen, ‎ Robert Goldenberg, ‎ Hayim Lapin, The Oxford Annotated Mishnah, page 389:

     She may loop up [her cloak] with a stone or nut or coin, provided that she does not loop it up [thus] for the first time on the Sabbath.

2. (intransitive) To get back together.
   • 2024 March 17, Helen Bushby, “3 Body Problem: Game of Thrones creators on why they swapped dragons for aliens”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     Weiss and Benioff were familiar with the UK, having used it as a location for Game of Thrones. Returning was was the perfect excuse to loop up with some former cast "Thrones friends" including actors Bradley, Cunningham and Sir Jonathan Pryce.

3. (education, intransitive) To continue teaching the same students for the next year of the curriculum.
   • 2008, Anastasia Samaras, ‎ Anne R. Freese, ‎ Clare Kosnik, Learning Communities In Practice, page 65:

     Some of the MEdT pre-service teachers experience the benefits of looping when they are able to stay with their same interdisciplinary teaching team, and loop up with teachers and students the second year to complete their student teaching semester.