"soup up" meaning in English

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      "form": "soups up",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "souping up",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "souped up",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "souped up",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "soup up (third-person singular simple present soups up, present participle souping up, simple past and past participle souped up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "orig": "en:Automotive",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        {
          "ref": "2009 October 19, Paul Rees, “Flying backs become walking wounded as blitz defence has its impact”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Imagine souping up a Mini with a Cosworth engine: the car would fly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To modify the engine of (a motor vehicle) to give a higher performance than the specifications."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "modify",
          "modify"
        ],
        [
          "engine",
          "engine"
        ],
        [
          "performance",
          "performance"
        ],
        [
          "specification",
          "specification"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, transitive) To modify the engine of (a motor vehicle) to give a higher performance than the specifications."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "modify higher performance than the specifications",
          "word": "virittää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "modify higher performance than the specifications",
          "word": "débrider"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "modify higher performance than the specifications",
          "word": "aufmotzen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "modify higher performance than the specifications",
          "word": "frisieren"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "modify higher performance than the specifications",
          "word": "tunen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "forsírovatʹ dvígatelʹ",
          "sense": "modify higher performance than the specifications",
          "word": "форси́ровать дви́гатель"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "modify higher performance than the specifications",
          "word": "trucar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "modify higher performance than the specifications",
          "word": "retocar"
        }
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Automotive",
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            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        {
          "ref": "1948, Harley L. Lutz, \"Taxes and Jobs,\" Institute of Business and Economic Problems: A Series of Lectures, page 25",
          "text": "They are dickering over a tax cut small enough, in a bill \"souped\" up with gadgets, to escape or override a veto.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To embellish with many additions."
      ],
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        [
          "embellish",
          "embellish"
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        "(by extension) To embellish with many additions."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "tune up"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "soup-up"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "supe up"
    }
  ],
  "word": "soup up"
}

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    "en:Automotive"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "souped-up"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "soups up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "souping up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "souped up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "souped up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "soup up (third-person singular simple present soups up, present participle souping up, simple past and past participle souped up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 October 19, Paul Rees, “Flying backs become walking wounded as blitz defence has its impact”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Imagine souping up a Mini with a Cosworth engine: the car would fly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To modify the engine of (a motor vehicle) to give a higher performance than the specifications."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "modify",
          "modify"
        ],
        [
          "engine",
          "engine"
        ],
        [
          "performance",
          "performance"
        ],
        [
          "specification",
          "specification"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, transitive) To modify the engine of (a motor vehicle) to give a higher performance than the specifications."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1948, Harley L. Lutz, \"Taxes and Jobs,\" Institute of Business and Economic Problems: A Series of Lectures, page 25",
          "text": "They are dickering over a tax cut small enough, in a bill \"souped\" up with gadgets, to escape or override a veto.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To embellish with many additions."
      ],
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        [
          "embellish",
          "embellish"
        ]
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        "(by extension) To embellish with many additions."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
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    {
      "word": "tune up"
    },
    {
      "word": "soup-up"
    },
    {
      "word": "supe up"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "modify higher performance than the specifications",
      "word": "virittää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "modify higher performance than the specifications",
      "word": "débrider"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "modify higher performance than the specifications",
      "word": "aufmotzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "modify higher performance than the specifications",
      "word": "frisieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "modify higher performance than the specifications",
      "word": "tunen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "forsírovatʹ dvígatelʹ",
      "sense": "modify higher performance than the specifications",
      "word": "форси́ровать дви́гатель"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "modify higher performance than the specifications",
      "word": "trucar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "modify higher performance than the specifications",
      "word": "retocar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "soup up"
}