Word.ws English Dictionary

oiling up

oiling up is the present participle and gerund of oil up.

Meaning of oil up

Verb

oil up (third-person singular simple present oils up, present participle oiling up, simple past and past participle oiled up)

  1. (transitive) To lubricate with oil; to cover or smear with oil.
    • They really oiled up that bike chain, didn't they?
  2. To get (someone) drunk.
    • They really oiled him up last night, planning to get him to talk, but he'd been well warned about industrial espionage, and he kept his cool.
    Synonyms:
    lubricate, liquor up

Questions about oiling up

What is oiling up the present participle and gerund of?
Oiling up is the present participle and gerund of oil up.

Words near oiling up in the dictionary

  1. oiligarchy
  2. oilily
  3. oiliness
  4. oilinesses
  5. oiling
  6. oiling up
  7. oilings
  8. oilionaire
  9. oilionaires
  10. oilish
  11. oilless

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: oiling up (page history and authors); oil up (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “oiling up.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/oiling_up. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.