lie up
mainly UK— phrasal verb with lie uk/laɪ/us/laɪ/verb
to hide from police officers, soldiers, etc. who are looking for you:
The escaped prisoners lay up in a barn for a few weeks, until the search had been called off.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Hiding and disguising
- be holed up idiom
- bury
- camo
- camouflage
- cloak
- conceal
- concealment
- hit the deck idiom
- hole up (somewhere)
- illusion
- incognito
- infiltration
- obscure
- skulk
- smokescreen
- snuck
- stash
- stow
- tuck
- veil
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