hop up

1. 1.

   make more powerful

   “he souped up the old cars”

   Synonymssoup uphot up

   Broadermodify

Questions about hop up

What does hop up mean?

hop up means "make more powerful".

What is another word for hop up?

Close synonyms include soup up, hot up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hop up a common word?

hop up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.