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Malfunction of set roughly turned the wrong way
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act up
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vb. (context intransitive idiomatic English) To misbehave; to cause trouble.
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AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ( ACT UP ) is an international direct action advocacy group working to impact the lives of people with AIDS (PWAs) and the AIDS pandemic to bring about legislation, medical research and treatment and policies to ultimately ...
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v. misbehave badly; act in a silly or improper way; "The children acted up when they were not bored" [syn: carry on ] make itself felt as a recurring pain; "My arthritis is acting up again"
Usage examples of act up.
There's Rowdy Ralph Reed's far-Right Christians for one, and then way out at the other end of the spectrum there's ACT UP and the sensitive men and angry womyn of the PC Left.
He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal, under particular circumstances, to act up to it.
He haggled long about the price, for form's sake, to act up to his part as Nicholas Korpanoff, a plain merchant of Irkutsk.
That no man can ever act up to the pure idea of virtue does not in the least prove the chimerical nature of that concept.