gassing up

Verb

gas up (third-person singular simple present gases up, present participle gasses up, simple past and past participle gassed up)

1. (US, transitive) To refuel (a vehicle).
   • I can close down this bar / I can gas up my car / I can pack up and mail in my key1977, “Bartender’s Blues”, in James Taylor (lyrics), JT, performed by James Taylor, Columbia Records
2. (slang, transitive) To inflate (someone's ego); to deceive by flattery.
   • Social media got
     us all too gassed up
     Women nowadays be like
     If you ain't dropped
     sixteen hundred grand
     On a Maserati then you
     ain't the man for me2018 December 9, Khali Raymond, savage writer, Voice of the Brick City (Axis 360), YTER/x Surreal Dreamz Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC
3. (slang, transitive) To publicly praise.