Check the meaning in your dictionary. vs Check it up in your dictionary.

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in slightly different contexts. 'Check the meaning in your dictionary' is a more formal and direct way of instructing someone to look up a word in a dictionary. On the other hand, 'Check it up in your dictionary' is a more casual and colloquial way of conveying the same message.

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Check the meaning in your dictionary.

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is a formal and direct way of instructing someone to look up a word in a dictionary.

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Look up the definition of 'guy' in your dictionary.
Look up the words in your dictionary.
When you come across new words, you must look them up in your dictionary.
I thought I would ask to borrow your dictionary.
You should learn how to use your dictionary.
Check the remaining usage collection cards against these two dictionaries.
Does the word "privacy" mean the same thing in your dictionary as it does in mine?
If you don't know the meaning of a word, look it up in a dictionary.
If you don't know the meaning of a word, look it up in a dictionary.
That's the meaning in one sentence of captain Jack Rooney.
Where's the meaning in that?
To find the meanings in the mornings that I see
This show, the meaning in this show, my show, it...
I look for the meaning in mine.
But l've never understood the meaning in the smile she left behind.
Madam President, I must point out that there is a textual error which distorts the meaning in various documents and in various language versions.
What happened to taking it easy and soul searching and finding the meaning in life?
The person responsible for performing the work need not necessarily be the person responsible for the pollution in the meaning in which that expression is used here.
(36) The person responsible for performing the work need not necessarily be the person responsible for the pollution in the meaning in which that expression is used here.
But when I try and think about what I've learned about the meaning in life, my mind keeps wandering back to a seminar that I took when I was a graduate student at Harvard with the great psychologist Erik Erikson.

Alternatives:

Look up the meaning in your dictionary.
Consult your dictionary for the meaning.
Refer to your dictionary for the meaning.
Search for the meaning in your dictionary.

Check it up in your dictionary.

This phrase is correct but more casual and colloquial.

This phrase is a more casual and colloquial way of instructing someone to look up a word in a dictionary.

Show examples from the web [+]

When you come across new words, you must look them up in your dictionary.
Look up the definition of 'guy' in your dictionary.
Look up the words in your dictionary.
- But I looked it up in the dictionary.
First of all, you must look it up in the dictionary.
I thought I would ask to borrow your dictionary.
You should learn how to use your dictionary.
If you don't know the meaning of a word, look it up in a dictionary.
If you don't know the meaning of a word, look it up in a dictionary.
Look it up in the dictionary.
Seriously, you can... you can look it up in the dictionary.
You know, I looked it up in the dictionary.
Does the word "privacy" mean the same thing in your dictionary as it does in mine?
Maseo called me that before he left, and I looked it up, but it wasn't in my Chinese dictionary.
And when I did, I thought, well, I'd better look this word up in the dictionary.
There's no such thing as giving up in my dictionary.
"I must look that up in a dictionary."
We smelled smoke coming from the kitchen, and then a couple of guys went in there to check it out, but it was already up in flames.
Sometimes I cheat a little bit, mix it up ahead of time and heat it up in the microwave.
His wife's picking it up in the morning.

Alternatives:

Look it up in your dictionary.
Check in your dictionary.
Search for it in your dictionary.
Refer to your dictionary for it.

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Check the meaning in your dictionary. vs Check it up in your dictionary.