PEP UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pep up mean? 

• PEP UP (verb)
  The verb PEP UP has 2 senses:

1. spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

2. make more interesting or lively

  Familiarity information: PEP UP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEP UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

barrack; cheer; exhort; inspire; pep up; root on; urge; urge on

Context example:

The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers

Hypernyms (to "pep up" is one way to...):

encourage (inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pep up"):

cheerlead (act as a cheerleader in a sports event)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make more interesting or lively

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

ginger up; jazz up; juice up; pep up

Context example:

pep up your paper

Hypernyms (to "pep up" is one way to...):

animate; enliven; invigorate; liven; liven up (make lively)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something