"soup up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: soups up [present, singular, third-person], souping up [participle, present], souped up [participle, past], souped up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} soup up (third-person singular simple present soups up, present participle souping up, simple past and past participle souped up)
  1. (informal, transitive) To modify the engine of (a motor vehicle) to give a higher performance than the specifications. Tags: informal, transitive Categories (topical): Automotive Translations (modify higher performance than the specifications): virittää (Finnish), débrider (French), aufmotzen (German), frisieren (German), tunen (German), форси́ровать дви́гатель (forsírovatʹ dvígatelʹ) (Russian), trucar (Spanish), retocar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-soup_up-en-verb-E5t7lPj6 Disambiguation of Automotive: 50 50 Disambiguation of 'modify higher performance than the specifications': 96 4
  2. (by extension) To embellish with many additions. Tags: broadly Categories (topical): Automotive
    Sense id: en-soup_up-en-verb-1EHiEBNv Disambiguation of Automotive: 50 50 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "up", Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 89 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "up": 20 80 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 22 78 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 21 79 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 91 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 17 83 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 19 81 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 13 87
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: tune up, soup-up, supe up Derived forms: souped-up

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "sense": "modify higher performance than the specifications",
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