hop up
English
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Verb
[edit]hop up (third-person singular simple present hops up, present participle hopping up, simple past and past participle hopped up)
- (transitive) To excite (people).
- (intransitive) To get in a high vehicle.
- (intransitive) To stand up quickly.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To make something, especially a machine, better (faster, bigger etc.); to soup up.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hop, up.
- Don't let the cat hop up onto the kitchen counter!
See also
[edit]- hopped up (“drugged, intoxicated; souped up”)