square up

Questions about square up

What does square up mean?

square up means "make square". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for square up?

Close synonyms include square, jog, even up, settle, square off. 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 square up a common word?

square up is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.