dish up

1. 1.

   provide (usually but not necessarily food)

   “We serve meals for the homeless”

   “She dished out the soup at 8 P.M.”

   “The entertainers served up a lively show”

   Synonymsserveserve updish outdish

   Broaderprovide

   Narrowerplank

Questions about dish up

What does dish up mean?

dish up means "provide (usually but not necessarily food)".

What is another word for dish up?

Close synonyms include serve, serve up, dish out, dish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dish up a common word?

dish up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.