soup up

1. 1.

   make more powerful

   “he souped up the old cars”

   Synonymshop uphot up

   Broadermodify

Questions about soup up

What does soup up mean?

soup up means "make more powerful".

What is another word for soup up?

Close synonyms include hop 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 soup up a common word?

soup 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.