tit up

tit up (third-person singular simple present tits up, present participle titting up, simple past and past participle titted up)

1. (Britain, vulgar slang, transitive) To fondle or grope the breasts of.

   She let me tit her up over her jumper.

   • 2004, Tracey Emin, Top Spot, Tracey Emin (actor), BBC Three:

     Top Spot was here. Here somewhere. Giant ballroom with chandeliers and red velvet curtains. We'd snog and kiss, be fingered, titted up.

   • 2011, Micky Flanagan Live: The Out Out Tour, Micky Flanagan (actor), Channel 4 DVD:

     You had to tit the girl up for about a year! You had to tit her up round the flats! [...] You titted her up over the jumper, over the jumper. Then you got under the jumper!

   • 2016 May 16, Grace Dent, “You won't part me from my high heels - if this is millennial feminism, I’m joining the patriarchy”, in The Independent:

     [...] I knew modern feminism and myself were deeply estranged during last month’s outcry over young women being ‘groped at gigs’, as my first thought was that when I was sixteen, getting titted up wildly in the melee at the Glasgow Barrowlands really was the best part.

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