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pep up

pep up verb: to refresh, enliven, or restore.

Verb

pep up (third-person singular simple present peps up, present participle pepping up, simple past and past participle pepped up)

  1. (informal) To refresh, enliven, or restore.
    • I need some coffee to pep me up.
    • Watering my houseplants really pepped them up.
  2. (informal) To make stronger or more interesting.
    • We're looking for ideas to pep up the new ad campaign.

Forms of pep up

third-person singular presentpeps up
present participlepepping up
past participlepepped up
pastpepped up

Questions about pep up

What does pep up mean?
Pep up means to refresh, enliven, or restore.
What part of speech is pep up?
Pep up is a verb.
What is the past tense of pep up?
The past tense of pep up is pepped up.

Words near pep up in the dictionary

  1. pep squad
  2. pep squads
  3. PEP syndrome
  4. pep talk
  5. pep talks
  6. pep up
  7. pepastic
  8. pepastics
  9. pepaw
  10. pepaws
  11. PEPC

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