beam up

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beam someone/something up

to send someone or something into space as waves of energy. Mission Control beamed up pictures of the spaceship taken from the space station. The ads show aliens beaming up a cow.

Etymology: based on the literal meaning of beam (= a line of light) and made popular by the TV show "Star Trek," in which people would ask to be transported by saying beam me up

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