[Ads-l] re-up

Sat Dec 10 15:10:34 UTC 2016

"Renew" (get a booster), I suppose.

Joel

      From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
 To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
 Sent: Friday, December 9, 2016 8:32 PM
 Subject: Re: [ADS-L] re-up

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> CNN advises us to "get re-upped on" our MMR vaccinations.

What does that mean? "Get up to date - or should that be "up-to-date"? - on
our MMR vaccinations" or some such?

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