gas up

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

  1. (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
  2. (transitive, slang) To inflate (someone's ego); to deceive by flattery.
    • 2018 December 9, Khali Raymond, savage writer, Voice of the Brick City (Axis 360)‎[1], 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

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