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foam up

[for something, such as soap or milk] to make foam or lather. Milk will foam up when it is boiled. The boiling soup foamed up and slopped over the pot.

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foam up

v.

To become more foamy: Shaving cream foams up when you spray it from the can.

See also: foam, up