Usually means: Engaged in secretive or suspicious activity.
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  1. up to something: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. up to something: Wiktionary

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▸ adjective:  (idiomatic) Doing something mischievous or scheming.

Similar:
scheming, schemey, mischiefmaking, schemy, roguish, mischievous, naughty, tricksterish, knackery, skulduggerous, more...

Phrases:
to warm up to something, be up to something, when you lift up to grab something, more...

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Similar:
scheming, schemey, mischiefmaking, schemy, roguish, mischievous, naughty, tricksterish, knackery, skulduggerous, more...

Phrases:
to warm up to something, be up to something, when you lift up to grab something, more...



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