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amps

/æmps/

amps is the plural of amp.

amps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of amp.

Meaning of amp

Verb

amp (third-person singular simple present amps, present participle amping, simple past and past participle amped)

  1. (colloquial, usually) To amplify.
    • He asked the disk jockey to amp it up.
  2. (colloquial, usually) To excite.
    • Well you're very amped up today, what's got you so excited?
  3. (colloquial, usually) To intensify or increase.
    • 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.2003, CMJ New Music Monthly, number 115, page 42
  4. (colloquial, usually) To connect to amplifiers.
    • and even the Velvet Underground were still only amping up conventional instruments2015, Kris Needs, Suicide: Dream Baby Dream, A New York City Story

Noun capitalized: AMPS

AMPS (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of amplified musculoskeletal pain syndrome

Proper noun capitalized: AMPS

AMPS

  1. Advanced Mobile Phone System, American Mobile Phone System, Analog Mobile Phone System.
  2. All Media and Products Survey.

Phrases with amps

Words that rhyme with amps

Questions about amps

What does amps mean?
Amps means advanced Mobile Phone System, American Mobile Phone System, Analog Mobile Phone System.
What is amps the plural of?
Amps is the plural of amp.
What part of speech is amps?
Amps can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce amps?
Amps is pronounced /æmps/.

Words near amps in the dictionary

  1. ampoules
  2. amprenavir
  3. amprolium
  4. ampropylfos
  5. amprotropine
  6. amps
  7. amps down
  8. amps up
  9. Ampthill
  10. AMPTP
  11. ampul

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amps (page history and authors); AMPS (page history and authors); amp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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