run up

Short definition from Wiktionary

Verb

1. 1
   To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
2. 2
   To approach (an event or point in time).
3. 3
   To take to a destination or before an authority.
4. 4
   To erect hastily, as a building.
5. 5
   To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
6. 6
   To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole.
7. 7
   To string up; to hang.
8. 8
   Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
9. 9
   To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.
10. 10
    To accumulate (a debt).
11. 11
    To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
12. 12
    To warm up and test an airplane before a flight.
13. 13
    To accumulate money, drugs, etc.
14. 14
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up.

Noun

1. 1
   Alternative form of run-up.
2. 2
   The approach run of a bowler before delivering the ball.
3. 3
   The approach run of a high jumper or other athlete in order to gather speed or momentum.
4. 4
   A period of time just before an important event.
5. 5
   An increase in the value or amount of something.
6. 6
   The extent of a wave's reach onto land as the result of a tsunami or storm such as a cyclone.
7. 7
   The process of warming up and testing an airplane before a flight.