Occasionally the simpler infinitive form of the verb is employed with the particle as a combination adjective. Webster's Dictionary defines bang-up, as 'first-rate; fine,' it is not unusual in the world of advertising to send out follow-up letters, to the police may come a hurry-up call, a prize-fighter receives a knock-down blow, a housewife prepares a pick-up lunch, a put-up job defeats a man in politics, one wears a turn-down collar, etc.

And, finally, it is even possible to illustrate a slight tendency to add a derivative suffix in the phrase come-at-able or get-at-able, the very awkward makeshift of the man who cannot recall the less familiar attainable.

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