rope up

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   attach to one another, for safety

   “The mountaineers roped up when they started the final ascent”

   Broaderfasten

Questions about rope up

What does rope up mean?

rope up means "attach to one another, for safety".

Is rope up a common word?

rope 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.