gas up

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Verb

gas up (third-person singular simple present gasses up or gases up, present participle gassing up, simple past and past participle gassed up)

(transitive, US) To refuel (a vehicle).
- 1977, “Bartender’s Blues”, in James Taylor (lyrics), JT, performed by James Taylor, Columbia Records:
  I can close down this bar / I can gas up my car / I can pack up and mail in my key
(transitive, slang) To inflate (someone's ego).
- 2018 December 9, Khali Raymond, savage writer, Voice of the Brick City (Axis 360)‎, YTER/x Surreal Dreamz Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC:
  Social media got
  us all too gassed up
  Women nowadays be like
  If you ain't dropped
  sixteen hundred grand
  On a Maserati then you
  ain't the man for me

Translations

(US slang) To fill a gas tank with fuel — see also refuel

Finnish: tankata (fi), täyttää polttoaineella
German: auftanken (de), tanken (de)
Spanish: repostar carburante

Anagrams

-pagus, GPUSA, Pugas, gaups, pagus, spaug

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