wedged(-up)

wedged(-up)
adj
British
financially well-endowed, wealthy or 'flush'. A racy working-class back-forma-tion from wedge, meaning money. Wedged(-up) or 'well-wedged' were adopted in the yuppie era by middle-class speakers.
the senior partner who spends his lunch hours not at a sandwich bar but at a casino, and every so often comes back "wedged up with more than just a round of tuna mayonnaise".' (Sunday Times, 15 December 1996)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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