cope up

cope up
 v.— «So the desiway of saying “cope with’ is “cope up with,” something that phorenstudents now take as a given.» —“Pardon the lingo, we’re desi no” by Renuka Vijay Kumar Times of India (Hyderabad, India) June 1, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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