Usually means: Marrying someone of higher status.
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  1. marry up: Collins English Dictionary
  2. marry up (sth): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. marry up: Wiktionary
  4. marry up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. marry up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (marry up)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To join together.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To tally or correspond; to match up.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To marry someone of a higher social class.

Similar:
marry, marry in, join, couple, join up, conjoin, link up, match, hitch up, splice, more...

Opposite:
marry down, marry beneath

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Similar:
marry, marry in, join, couple, join up, conjoin, link up, match, hitch up, splice, more...

Opposite:
marry down, marry beneath



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