pad up

English

Verb

pad up (third-person singular simple present pads up, present participle padding up, simple past and past participle padded up)

  1. (cricket) To put on batting pads preparatory to taking the field to bat.
    • 1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 201:
      Normally only one batsman is padded up and Dean Jones was listed to bat next.
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