"gas up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-gas up.ogg [Australia] Forms: gasses up [present, singular, third-person], gases up [present, singular, third-person], gassing up [participle, present], gassed up [participle, past], gassed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|++*|pres_3sg2=gases up}} gas up (third-person singular simple present gasses up or gases up, present participle gassing up, simple past and past participle gassed up)
  1. (transitive, US) To refuel (a vehicle). Tags: US, transitive Categories (topical): Automotive
    Sense id: en-gas_up-en-verb-MW7xMeAL Disambiguation of Automotive: 62 38 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English phrasal verbs with particle (up), English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 64 36 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 75 25 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 75 25 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 86 14
  2. (transitive, slang) To inflate (someone's ego). Tags: slang, transitive
    Sense id: en-gas_up-en-verb-IpQJSftG
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations: tankata (Finnish), täyttää polttoaineella (Finnish), auftanken (German), tanken (German), repostar carburante (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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