point up

English

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Verb

point up (third-person singular simple present points up, present participle pointing up, simple past and past participle pointed up)

  1. (transitive, idiomatic) To emphasise or stress; to draw attention to. [from 20th c.]
    • 2016, Jonathon Green, Slang: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 12:
      That the OED was forced to define one register, slang, in terms of another, colloquial, points up the problem.
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