point up
English
Verb
point up (third-person singular simple present points up, present participle pointing up, simple past and past participle pointed up)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To emphasise or stress; to draw attention to. [from 20th c.]
- 2016, Jonathon Green, Slang: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2016, p. 12:
- That the OED was forced to define one register, slang, in terms of another, colloquial, points up the problem.
- 2016, Jonathon Green, Slang: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2016, p. 12:
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