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adv. (context colloquial English) abruptly; unexpectedly.
Usage examples of "up and".
As soon as the razor touched the Emperor's sores and scars the infections dried up and the scars miraculously healed.
She dragged him into a bog, and tumbled him up and down in it till he was nearly dead.
I had spent the better part of the morning in climbing up and down half ruined staircases in one of the most dilapidated of the ancient turrets.
But Goldilind, being left alone a little, rose up and paced the chamber to and fro, and her tears and sobbing ceased.
She got up and put out her hand to me, timidly, but with a peculiar brightness in her eyes.
I passed it again the other day, and was struck with awe on looking up and beholding that mark, now more distinct than ever, where a terrific and resistless bolt came down out of the harmless sky eight years ago.
We are trapped in this brood-chamber, but we're not walled up and we got here by fighting our way in.
He seemed scarcely to hear her, and was walking up and down the room in earnest meditation.