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soup up

British  

verb

  1. to modify (a vehicle or vehicle engine) in order to increase its power

  2. Also: hot up.   hop up.  to make (something) more exciting or interesting

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. (of a vehicle or vehicle engine) modified so as to be more powerful

    a souped-up scooter

  2. more exciting or interesting

    a souped-up version of their last single
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
soup up Idioms  

  1. Make something more powerful; especially, add speed to an engine. For example, He was riding around in that car he'd souped up, or They had to soup up the sound system for the outdoor concert. [Slang; c. 1930]

Example Sentences

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On top of that, once you embrace these brothy bowls, you’ll discover that many recipes are blueprints: You can creatively soup up all kinds of herbs, proteins and starches.

From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2022

Rising global average temperatures can also soup up storms and lead to more intense rainfall in some regions.

From The Verge • Aug. 4, 2021

Analysts said the takeover of TSG would soup up Flutter’s efforts to conquer the US and could signal fresh consolidation in a sector that has already witnessed a succession of mergers.

From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2019

Each year, Epic uses existing games, some of them all but forgotten, to soup up the Unreal Engine, so that it can handle an ever more sophisticated array of demands.

From The New Yorker • May 14, 2018

Hanako spooned some soup up, but she secretly kept her nostrils closed so she couldn’t taste it too well.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

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