change up

Meaning

1. to start using a higher gear when driving a car, etc.

   Change up into fifth.

In the movies · 9

• That's it! Change it up!Cinderella Man2005
• Change it up. Spin it.The Hunger Games: Catching Fire2013
• Line change! Line change! Change it up!Inside Out2015
• Get settled in, change. Let's meet up at the pool.Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery2022
• All right people let s change the atmosphere up in hereThe Purge: Anarchy2014
• It's just, if I change my style up and people really don't dig it…Ray2004
• But I see you've changed it up a bit since then.Captain Marvel2019
• -Time to change up the ground war. -How so, sir?Batman: Under the Red Hood2010

Learn it in full scenes

• Inside Out2015
  • Broccoli on the Pizza
  • Sadness Nearly Touches a Core Memory
  • Riley Introduces Herself and Cries
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery2022
  • The Puzzle Box Invitation
  • Miles Welcomes the Group to His Island
  • Miles's Disruption Dinner Speech

From the same entry

• change hands
• change horses in midstream
• change your mind
• change your tune
• change your ways
• chop and change
• a leopard cannot change its spots
• change places
• change around
• change back
• change back
• change back