hot up

Questions about hot up

What does hot up mean?

hot up means "gain heat or get hot". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for hot up?

Close synonyms include heat, heat up, heat up, screw up, soup 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 hot up a common word?

hot up is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.