oil up

English

Verb

oil up (third-person singular simple present oils up, present participle oiling up, simple past and past participle oiled up)

1. (transitive) To lubricate with oil; to cover or smear with oil.
   • 1923, May, Boy's Life

     Tom oiled up his chain and set out with a dozen miles yet to go before he would reach a good road. He had not ridden more than a mile before he met a farmer's boy on a bicycle. The boy stopped and asked Tom where he was going.

   • 2010, E. P. Marcellin, Element Keepers: Whispers of the Wind, page 148:

     Peteal oiled himself up again and was sent to practice with some of the other Pehlivan, who were in the deste division at the school. Though all of them were bigger than he was, he was only beaten twice.

Anagrams

• poilu