"hop up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-hop up.ogg [Australia] Forms: hops up [present, singular, third-person], hopping up [participle, present], hopped up [participle, past], hopped up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} hop up (third-person singular simple present hops up, present participle hopping up, simple past and past participle hopped up)
  1. (transitive, idiomatic) To make something, especially a machine, better (faster, bigger etc.); to soup up. Tags: idiomatic, transitive
    Sense id: en-hop_up-en-verb-8b92PT-4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 63 37 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 79 21
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hop, up. Related terms: hopped up (english: drugged, intoxicated; souped up)
    Sense id: en-hop_up-en-verb-22aLTYT9

Download JSON data for hop up meaning in English (1.8kB)

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