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If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you're going to shoot them, that's an acting exercise. If you want to turn to someone else who's as tooled up as you are and persuade them to put their knife down because you'll use your knife, that's an acting exercise. Nine out of 10 delinquents are frustrated actors.
Peter Mullan

Meaning of "tooled up" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TOOLED UP

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TOOLED UP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tooled up is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TOOLED UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tooled up in the English dictionary

The definition of tooled up in the dictionary is equipped with a weapon, esp a gun.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TOOLED UP

tool steel
tool-less
tool-maker
tool-making
toolbag
toolbar
toolbox
toolcase
toolchest
tooled
tooler
toolhead
toolholder
toolhouse
toolie
tooling
toolkit
toolman
toolroom
toolset

WORDS THAT END LIKE TOOLED UP

buttoned up
dolled up
dressed up
end up
fed up
fired up
glammed up
hyped up
keyed up
mixed up
psyched up
puffed up
screwed up
shed up
speed up
speeded up
steamed up
stuffed up
washed up
worked up
wrapped up

Synonyms and antonyms of tooled up in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «tooled up» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TOOLED UP

Find out the translation of tooled up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tooled up from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tooled up» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

极好的装备了
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

provistas de los equipos
570 millions of speakers

English

tooled up
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ऊपर सामग्री से लैस
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يصل مزخرف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тиснением до
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dirigido acima
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

টুল আপ আপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

outillées
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Disusun
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

bis nachgerüstet
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

アップ箔押し
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

최대 툴링
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tooling munggah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tay sai lên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கருவி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अप टूलड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Hazırlanmış
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lavorato up
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

obrobione w górę
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тисненням до
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tooled sus
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εξοπλιστεί για
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

uitgerust up
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skaffat utrustning för
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

behandles opp
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tooled up

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Peter Mullan
If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you're going to shoot them, that's an acting exercise. If you want to turn to someone else who's as tooled up as you are and persuade them to put their knife down because you'll use your knife, that's an acting exercise. Nine out of 10 delinquents are frustrated actors.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOOLED UP»

Discover the use of tooled up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tooled up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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UML Modeling Languages and Applications: “UML” 2004 ...
Tooled-up processes1 are assembled and managed by dedicated Tools & Methods organisations in THALES. Processes have a long life cycle comparing to tools and technologies. In a process definition, activities, concerns and roles are the ...
Nuno Jardim Nunes, 2005
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Principles of setting-out, securing and tooling operations ...
The clips holding the work down by the thin central portion the seating for the strips C can be faced to a previous setting of J in. from the tooled-up base. While thus held the casting should be secured by the surfaces last tooled up, and a face  ...
Alfred Parr, 1913
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The Competitive Status of the U.S. Civil Aviation ...
British Aerospace (BAe) has tooled up to produce 98 A300/ A3l0 wing sets per year. Heretofore, British Aerospace was set up for low-volume production. It took a significant cultural BOEING EQUIVALENT A300 PER MONTH (LOG SCALE) 3 X ...
‎1985
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Dictionary of Contemporary Slang
This usage is now rare, but has given rise to the standard underworld and police jargon expression tooled-up (armed with firearms) in British English. tool around/ abouttool around/about vb to idle or loaf, mess around performing trivial tasks.
Tony Thorne, 2014
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Economic Dynamics: Theory and Computation
A rigorous and example-driven introduction to topics in economic dynamics, with an emphasis on mathematical and computational techniques for modeling dynamic systems.
John Stachurski, 2009
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The Net Effect
Tooled-Up. It's no wonder so many of us are baffled by technology, considering we apply it to some of our most confounding pragmatic problems. As an adjunct to pure logic and abstract thought, the fashioning of objects and their subsequent  ...
Beth Porter, 2001
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I Think the Nurses are Stealing My Clothes: The Very Best of ...
But again, themain problem– well, yes, there istheethnic divide, but the main problem is– they're tooled up. Loads of people hate eachother when they live next door ... Brighton and Hove! Can't standeach other. And they'renext to each other ...
Warren Lakin, 2012
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GOLD, BARS & DIAMONDS
“Are you tooled up?” I know he had a 2lb ball pein hammer in his coat pocket, and at close quarters it was just as lethal as a mace or a knife, but knocking someone off with a hammer? I don't know, this wasn't something I wanted to be party to ...
Larry Garner
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Marc Rivalland on Swing Trading: A Guide to Profitable ...
tooled-up. swing. trader. Equipment How life changed in the late Nineties. In the Eighties, I had a set of charts which I updated manually, and access to a landline telephone to phone my broker to discover what was happening. That was the ...
Marc Rivalland, 2002
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Science Fiction Film, Television, and Adaptation: Across the ...
®tooled-up. and muscled-up ̄ (Williams 170). However, closer consideration shows that Ripley is neither excessively muscular nor hyper-masculine; she is, infact,tall(five feet, eleveninches),thin, andlanky. Christine Corneadescribes ...
Jay Telotte, Gerald Duchovnay, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOOLED UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tooled up is used in the context of the following news items.
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A sector tooled up for growth?
The highly cyclical tool hire sector has performed well over the past six months, as the US and UK construction markets continue their recoveries. But since the ... «Investors Chronicle, Jul 15»
2
"Badass" Lizzy Bennet gets tooled up to fight the undead in Pride …
Looking at some of the earlier scenes from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, you might almost forget the Z-word in the title. We're in familiar territory with the ... «Radio Times, Jul 15»
3
Survivalist husband Dougie is tooled up for all occasions
No, we preferred the mobile home version, in sunny France. Nonetheless his trusty tools came in handy, taping up wobbly pan handles or leaky shower heads. «Spalding Guardian, Jun 15»
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Sheffield firm tooled up for jobs boost
A Sheffield engineering firm is set to receive a £1.65million grant to complete a revolutionary oil well tool that is forecast to result in the company growing more ... «The Star, Jan 15»
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Get tooled up for winter - British Tooling Series 2014
The Scottish Tooling Series has now been expanded south of the border and been rebranded by Andy Turner and Alan Ellison as the British Tooling Series; two ... «British Mountaineering Council, Nov 14»
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Tooled Up and Ready to Fly
These 74 apprentices will join one of the three engineering programmes offered by the airline: industrial apprenticeship; cabin appearance apprenticeship or ... «AviationPros.com, Oct 14»
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Yarlington apprentices getting tooled up thanks to new trainee scheme
Gary Cottam, Buildbase store manager, said: “It can take time for new starters to the trade industry to build up their kit and implements so we were more than ... «Western Gazette, Oct 14»
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Former policemen get tooled up to take on cowboy builders
A group of retired policemen have started new careers as handy-men, in an attempt to stop people falling victim to cowboy builders. Four former Greater ... «Manchester Evening News, May 14»
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All tooled up: The essential equipment needed for gardening hasn't …
Writers were once allowed to be obsessive about the tools of their trade. It provided wonderful grist to the biographical mill. Did this author grind powder to make ... «The Independent, Mar 14»
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Galashiels guys set to get tooled up for new venture
Galashiels Men's Sheds organisers Gordon Elliot and Nigel Sargent (foreground) with the members of the new movement. Also pictured is Carole Allen, project ... «The Southern Reporter, Jan 14»

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