soup up en · VERB
Meanings
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(informal, transitive) To modify the engine of (a motor vehicle) to give a higher performance than the specifications.
Imagine souping up a Mini with a Cosworth engine: the car would fly.
2009 October 19, Paul Rees, “Flying backs become walking wounded as blitz defence has its impact”, in The Guardian:
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(broadly, figuratively, transitive) To embellish with many additions.
They are dickering over a tax cut small enough, in a bill "souped" up with gadgets, to escape or override a veto.
1948, Harley L. Lutz, "Taxes and Jobs," Institute of Business and Economic Problems: A Series of Lectures, page 25:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| souping up | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| supe up | alternative | lexicographic | |
| soups up | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| souped up | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| souped up | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| soup-up | alternative | lexicographic |
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Translations (11)
de tunen (modify higher performance than the specifications) · de aufmotzen (modify higher performance than the specifications) · es trucar (modify higher performance than the specifications) · pl podrasowywać (modify higher performance than the specifications) · nl opvoeren (modify higher performance than the specifications) · pl podrasować (modify higher performance than the specifications) · de frisieren (modify higher performance than the specifications) · fi virittää (modify higher performance than the specifications) · ru форси́ровать дви́гатель (modify higher performance than the specifications) · fr débrider (modify higher performance than the specifications) · es retocar (modify higher performance than the specifications)