Heard on Springer: _bully up_ "act in an intimidating manner"

[Wilson Gray]

Twenty-ish, white female speaker:

"When she saw me talking to her girlfriend, she came over and tried to
_bully up_."


Not in the UD.

Google has it once, as the title of a note on bullying,

http://asumag.com/mag/university_bully/

--
-Wilson
-----
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org