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Souped-up
Definitions
- 1 Of a racehorse: injected with a substance to make it run faster or to change its temperament.
- 2 Of an engine, a motor vehicle, etc.: modified for higher performance. slang
"$600.00 BUYS T. M. Scout with "Souped up" OX5 motor. Snappiest commercial single seater built. H. W. Mackie, Air Service, Houston, Texas."
- 3 Improved. broadly
"As with the previous Omicron subvariants, it seems likely that the US will follow those regions once again, with or without the new souped-up vaccines."
- 4 Intoxicated by alcohol or drugs. US, slang
"If you have had any experience at all with the effect that it has upon these people when they are in situations of violence, you can understand that you cannot send these persons who are souped up on drugs to perform a delicate mission […]"
- 5 Excited. New-England, US, slang
- 1 simple past and past participle of soup-up form-of, participle, past
Etymology
Uncertain; the fact that the earlier senses seem to be the horse racing cant and United States Navy slang ones suggests a derivation from soup (“liquid food item”), connoting a horse or a person being filled with a liquid. Alternatively, it has been suggested that the term is a modified clipping of supe(r), with reference to an aeroplane or automobile engine being supercharged: see, for example, the quotation from 1925. This sense appears to post-date the horse-racing and navy slang senses.
Uncertain; the fact that the earlier senses seem to be the horse racing cant and United States Navy slang ones suggests a derivation from soup (“liquid food item”), connoting a horse or a person being filled with a liquid. Alternatively, it has been suggested that the term is a modified clipping of supe(r), with reference to an aeroplane or automobile engine being supercharged: see, for example, the quotation from 1925. This sense appears to post-date the horse-racing and navy slang senses.
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