soup up

English

Verb

soup up (third-person singular simple present soups up, present participle souping up, simple past and past participle souped up)

1. (informal, transitive) To modify the engine of (a motor vehicle) to give a higher performance than the specifications.
   • 2009 October 19, Paul Rees, “Flying backs become walking wounded as blitz defence has its impact”, in The Guardian:

     Imagine souping up a Mini with a Cosworth engine: the car would fly.

Synonyms

• tune up

Translations

modify higher performance than the specifications

• Finnish: virittää (fi)
• French: débrider (fr)
• German: frisieren (de), tunen (de), aufmotzen (de)
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• Russian: форси́ровать дви́гатель (forsírovatʹ dvígatelʹ)
• Spanish: retocar (es), trucar (es), acondicionar (es), tunear (es)