fetch up

English

Verb

fetch up (third-person singular simple present fetches up, present participle fetching up, simple past and past participle fetched up)

  1. (intransitive) To arrive somewhere, especially unexpectedly.
    • 1995, Junichi Saga, Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld
      We panicked again for a moment, but the wind switched direction without warning, and we slowly drifted away till we fetched up at Tsukuda island, where the Sumida runs into the bay.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To overtake.
    • L'Estrange
      Says [the hare], I can fetch up the tortoise when I please.
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