prick up

1. 1.

   raise

   “The dog pricked up his ears”

   Synonymsprickcock up

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Questions about prick up

What does prick up mean?

prick up means "raise".

What is another word for prick up?

Close synonyms include prick, cock up. 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 prick up a common word?

prick 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.