ask up

To invite a visitor to one's house (especially if the visitor must travel north to get there). My cousins in Pennsylvania have asked me up to their house for the weekend, but that's a long drive from Florida. I did ask Mary up, but she's busy this Saturday. I have friends in Boston who are always asking us up. It would be a quick flight from New Jersey—I think we should pick a weekend and go!

to ask someone to come to one's home for a visit. (Usually said when someone must travel north, up a hill, or to an apartment on a higher floor for the visit.) Let's ask Judy up for the weekend. We asked up a few old friends.