beetroot vs color up

beetroot

verb
  • To turn a bright red or purple colour. 

noun
  • A normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating; Synonym of beet. 

  • The edible part of the root of a beet plant, raw or prepared. 

color up

verb
  • To blush (to go red). 

  • To exchange a high number of low-value chips (of one color) for a lower number of higher value (of a different color), but keeping the same overall value. 

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