charged up

Verb

charge up (third-person singular simple present charges up, present participle charging up, simple past and past participle charged up)

1. (transitive) To recharge, to give electrical power to something.
   • You should charge up your phone before the camping trip, as there won't be any power supplies.
2. (idiomatic) To motivate, to instill someone with determination.
   • The coach had to charge up his players with a powerful speech before the final.
3. (slang, transitive) To deliberately infect (a person) with HIV as part of bug-chasing.
   • The subcultural vernacular “I'll charge you up" evokes the act of charging a battery or readying a mechanism for action; […]2009, Tim Dean, Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking