Usually means: Occupied or bound, unable to move.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word tied up:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. tied up: Merriam-Webster
  2. tied up: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tied up: Vocabulary.com
  4. tied-up: Wordnik
  5. tied-up, tied up: Wiktionary
  6. tied up: Dictionary.com
  7. Tied Up (Casey Veggies song), Tied Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Tied-up: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. tied up: FreeDictionary.org
  10. tied up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. tied up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tied up: Legal dictionary

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

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tied up: Medical dictionary

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

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tied up, tied up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tied Up, tied-up: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (tied up)

adjective:  occupied; busy

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