Usually means: Lead, manage, or direct something.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. head up: Merriam-Webster
  2. head up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. head up: Vocabulary.com
  4. Head-Up, Head-up, head-up: Wordnik
  5. head up: Wiktionary
  6. head up: Dictionary.com
  7. head up: Rhymezone
  8. head up: FreeDictionary.org
  9. head up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. head up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. head up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. head up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. head up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. head up, head up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. head up: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Head up: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Head Up: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (head up)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To lead or take the lead in; to direct; to take charge of.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To close (a cask, barrel, etc.) by fitting a head to it.
▸ verb:  (nautical) To turn towards the wind

Similar:
head, lead, take the lead, conduct, manage, take the helm, onlead, front up, usher, inlead, more...

Opposite:
head down, lower, bow

Phrases:
head up display, head up displays, to head up, Keep Ya Head Up, Hold Your Head Up, more...

Adjectives:
ascendant, rising, elevate, ascending, uplevel, up, upright, put up, lifted, attollent, step-up

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Similar:
head, lead, take the lead, conduct, manage, take the helm, onlead, front up, usher, inlead, more...

Opposite:
head down, lower, bow

Phrases:
head up display, head up displays, to head up, Keep Ya Head Up, Hold Your Head Up, keep your head up, lift head up, swaying head up and down, more...

Adjectives:
ascendant, rising, elevate, ascending, uplevel, up, upright, put up, lifted, attollent, step-up



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