phrasal verb

phrasal verb
phras′al verb′
n.
gram. a combination of verb and one or more adverbs or prepositions, as catch on, take off, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning not predictable from the meanings of the individual parts
Etymology: 1875–80

From formal English to slang. 2014.

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