charge up
English
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Verb
[edit]charge up (third-person singular simple present charges up, present participle charging up, simple past and past participle charged up)
- (transitive) To recharge, to give electrical power to something.
- You should charge up your phone before the camping trip, as there won't be any power supplies.
- (idiomatic) To motivate, to instill someone with determination.
- The coach had to charge up his players with a powerful speech before the final.
- (LGBTQ, slang, transitive) To deliberately infect (a person) with HIV as part of bug-chasing.
- 2009, Tim Dean, Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking:
- The subcultural vernacular “I'll charge you up" evokes the act of charging a battery or readying a mechanism for action; […]