listen up

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   used to tell people to listen carefully because you are going to say sth important

In the movies · 57

• All right, listen up. Here's the plan.Thor: Love and Thunder2022
• Shit, man! Listen up! What's the matter? Don't ya get it?Raising Arizona1987
• All right, let's go. Listen up, everybody!United 932006
• Listen up, kid. Listen up.Boogie Nights1997
• All right, everybody, listen up. Listen up.This Is the End2013
• Everybody, listen up.The Beekeeper2024
• You listen up.Avatar: The Way of Water2022
• Listen up, folks.Toy Story 32010

Learn it in full scenes

• United 932006
  • Passengers Board United 93
  • The FAA Morning Briefing
  • A Controller Reports a Possible Hijack
• This Is the End2013
  • Seth Picks Jay Up at LAX
  • Seth Talks Jay Into the Party
  • Franco Gives the House Tour

From the same entry

• listen for
• listen in

More phrasal verbs

• start out
• break into
• get off
• take after
• settle for
• fall out
• hang up on
• catch up with
• be cut out for
• sit up
• stand up to
• come together