prick up

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Verb

prick up - raise; "The dog pricked up his ears"

cock up, prick

erect, rear - cause to rise up

Translations

w>prick up

vi her/its ears pricked up → sie/es spitzte die Ohren

vt sep to prick up its/one’s ears (lit, fig) → die Ohren spitzen

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I have so named him because he could prick up only one of his ears.

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If you're someone with a product worth shouting about, some of these people will be on hand on December 1 to give you an idea of how best to prick up their ears - and the turn-offs to avoid like the plague.

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The performer played Kenneth Halliwell in Prick Up Your Ears, which ends as he murders his lover Joe Orton and prepares to take his own life.