rark-up
v. phr.— «Occasionally, too, he gives his team-mates the message if they’re not performing. Shaw takes his “rark-ups” with a grain of salt and then gets on with the job, as he has done since 1990.» —“Shaw rethink has him back in contention” by Marc Hinton Sunday Star-Times (Auckland, New Zealand) Dec. 22, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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