Amp

//æmp// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of Amplified Bible. abbreviation, alt-of
Noun
  1. 1
    Clipping of ampere. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable
  2. 2
    Initialism of adenosine monophosphate. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  3. 3
    the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites wordnet
  4. 4
    Clipping of amplifier. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable
  5. 5
    Initialism of antimicrobial peptide. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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  1. 6
    a nucleotide found in muscle cells and important in metabolism; reversibly convertible to ADP and ATP wordnet
  2. 7
    Clipping of ampoule. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable

    "The physician had included a note which said: "Dear Miss ........, I could not get the name of your friend over the phone so I am sending two prescriptions for Methedrine amps and one prescription for Drinalfa ten cc vials."

  3. 8
    Initialism of accelerated mobile page. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

    "That strict nature of the AMP HTML means that attention to detail is necessary. The pages must be properly validated in order to function every time — and in order to amp up your place in Google's rankings, your AMP site must function every time."

  4. 9
    Clipping of amputee. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable
  5. 10
    Initialism of Asian massage parlor. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  6. 11
    Clipping of amphetamine. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, uncountable
  7. 12
    Clipping of ampicillin. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, uncountable
  8. 13
    Clipping of ampersand. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable
Verb
  1. 1
    To amplify. colloquial, usually, with-up

    "He asked the disk jockey to amp it up."

  2. 2
    To excite. colloquial, usually, with-up

    "Well you're very amped up today, what's got you so excited?"

  3. 3
    To intensify or increase. colloquial, usually, with-up

    "Amping the Justin Timberlake cameos and revving up Jiggytron 5000, these Peas want to be on Middle America's fickle plate — losing little dread-whippin' imaginativeness in the wizzash."

  4. 4
    To connect to amplifiers. colloquial, usually, with-up

    "and even the Velvet Underground were still only amping up conventional instruments"

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