pay up

— Phrasal Verb with pay

/peɪ/ verb (past tense and past participle paid)

Definition

informal

› to give someone all of the money that you owe them, especially when you do not want to: Come on, pay up!

(Definition of pay up from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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