Queue Line Ticket Meaning Join People Waiting Turn

Meaning: If you queue up, you join a line of people waiting for their turn to do something.

• queue up When we went to the bank we had to queue up at the counter.
  
  
• queue up for sth Don't you hate it when you've been queuing up for a ticket, and they run out just before you get to the counter?
  
  

Nouns often used as indirect objects with queue up: for a ticket, pass, token, coupon, taxi; in a bank, post-office, supermarket; at a counter, ticket window, box-office