Definition beam up in British English

beam up phrasal verb

[transitive] phrasal verb

This verb was most famously used in the phrase ‘Beam me up, Scottie’, from the television science fiction series Star Trek, in which one of the main characters was called Mr Scott. People sometimes use this humorously for saying that they want to get away from an embarrassing or difficult situation.

in science fiction stories, to bring someone back to their spacecraft using special electronic equipment

Synonyms and related words

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