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vb. (en-third-person singular of: start up)
Usage examples of "starts up".
After that the water rises up the companionway, flooding the galley and berths, and then starts up the inverted engine room hatch.
She jumps up and turns on my stereo, presses play and an older recording I'd made at Ronnie's starts up, really loud brutal guitar.
A drinking song starts up, and after it's gone round a few times one of the Elves further down the table actually shouts that now he remembers me.
But finally it starts up for real, and out comes a whole row of identical gym bags, color-coordinated to match the girls' uniforms, and in the middle of them is Randy's big duffel.
Nothing ever changes: the music plays, the cartoon videotape rewinds itself and starts up again, men come in and drink and try not to get caught staring at her.
He starts up the road, hair flopping (his days of styled cuts at Chez-Chez on Rodeo Drive are long behind him now - this is the Coulee Country, and when he thinks of it at all, he gets his hair cut by old Herb Roeper down on Chase Street next to the Amvets), his gait as loose and lanky as a boy's.
He pulls the cigarette from his thin crack of a smile, and the laugh starts up again—.