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fuel up

fuel up verb: to eat hurriedly in order to do something more interesting.

Verb

fuel up (third-person singular simple present fuels up, present participle (US) fueling up or (UK) fuelling up, simple past and past participle (US) fueled up or (UK) fuelled up)

  1. (intransitive) To eat hurriedly in order to do something more interesting.

Forms of fuel up

third-person singular presentfuels up
present participle USfueling up
present participle UKfuelling up
past participle USfueled up
past USfueled up
past participle UKfuelled up
past UKfuelled up

Questions about fuel up

What does fuel up mean?
Fuel up means to eat hurriedly in order to do something more interesting.
What part of speech is fuel up?
Fuel up is a verb.
What is the past tense of fuel up?
The past tense of fuel up is fueled up.

Words near fuel up in the dictionary

  1. fuel supplier
  2. fuel suppliers
  3. fuel tank
  4. fuel tanks
  5. fuel tourism
  6. fuel up
  7. fuel-poor
  8. fuelbreak
  9. fuelbreaks
  10. fueldraulic
  11. fueled

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