fill-up

[ fil-uhp ]

noun

an act or instance of filling up, as a tank with fuel.

Origin of fill-up

First recorded in 1850–55; noun use of verb phrase fill up

Words Nearby fill-up

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How to use fill-up in a sentence

For some judges, their list of investments may fill up just a few lines on their annual financial disclosure form.
Law-Breaking Judges Took Cases That Could Make Them Even Richer | Reity O’Brien, Kytja Weir, Chris Young, Center for Public Integrity | April 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Now, this comment thread is going to fill up with conservatives discoursing on the vast differences between race and sexuality.
Is Marco Rubio a Bigot? | Michael Tomasky | March 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
There are enough great actor performances this year to fill up several Academy Awards ceremonies.
In Hollywood, Where Are the Best Actress Oscar Nominees? | Ramin Setoodeh | November 12, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Rats, on the other hand, “Live fast, die young, breed explosively, and fill up the world with more rats.”
Hurricane Sandy Worsens N.Y. Rat Problem | Winston Ross | October 31, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
But we need something to fill up the airwaves for a few more weeks.
Don’t Announce Your Vice-Presidential Pick Yet, Mitt! | Mark McKinnon | July 17, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST

To fill up the time till Liszt came, our hostess made us play, one after the other, beginning with the latest arrival.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy Fay
The feeling is hopeful if only we had more men and especially drafts to fill up our weakened battalions.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton
Thus if a man threatened to fill up your well because it stood, as he claimed, on his land, you had no preventive remedy at law.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney Bolles
Michael stopped, as though he wished his partner to fill up the sentence.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV. | Various
The freckle-faced girl began systematically to fill up the hollow with which she was accredited.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret Penrose

British Dictionary definitions for fill up

fill up

verb(adverb)

(tr) to complete (a form, application, etc)
to make or become completely full

nounfill-up

the act of filling something completely, esp the petrol tank of a car

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