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Definition of amp up
amp up 
verb - transitive
- to increase.
Citation from "What About Blob?", Reaper (TV, 2007), Season 1 Episode 5 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.
Citation from "Acid Queen", Reaper (TV), Season 1 Episode 13 (2008) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: to increase.
Last edited on May 06 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 20 2010.
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Other terms relating to 'to increase': | |
| Definitions include: to increase the sexiness. | |
| Definitions include: to get in someone's face to show that you are not scared of another person. | |
| Definitions include: to break or ruin. | |
| Definitions include: to increase the speed at which something operates. | |
| Definitions include: to increase the intensity of something. | |
| Definitions include: to increase very quickly. | |
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Other terms relating to 'amp': | |
| Definitions include: "cool"; "awesome"; "sweet". | |
| Definitions include: fatigued after amphetamine use. | |
| Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant. | |
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| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: to misbehave. | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up." | |
| Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc. | |
| Definitions include: doing something emphatically. | |
| Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant. | |
| Definitions include: to contribute one's share. | |
| Definitions include: to mess up. | |
| Definitions include: to make something like ass. | |
| Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird". | |
| Definitions include: strange / stupid. | |
| Definitions include: a situation that could end in multiple outcomes, each of which is equally likely. | |
| Definitions include: to move away from. | |
| Definitions include: to call someone to halt, particularly when the intention is to rob. | |
| Definitions include: to beat someone until they enter the fetal position (their body forming a tight ball.) | |
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