Definition of Gas up

1. Verb. Fill with gasoline. "Gas up the car"

Generic synonyms: Fuel

Definition of Gas up

1. Verb. (transitive US slang) To fill the gas tank of an automobile with fuel. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gas Up

gas shell
gas shift process
gas station
gas stations
gas stove
gas syringe
gas syringes
gas system
gas tank
gas tanks
gas thermometer
gas truck
gas trucks
gas turbine
gas turbines
gas up (current term)
gas vacuole
gas vesicle
gas well
gasahol
gasahols
gasalier
gasaliers
gasbag
gasbags
gascon
gasconade
gasconaded
gasconader
gasconaders

Literary usage of Gas up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Liquid and Gaseous Fuels: And the Part They Play in Modern Power Production by Vivian Byam Lewes (1907)
"In the meantime, however, events in the gas world had gradually been opening up a field for water gas as an auxiliary to coal gas. Up to the year 1889 the ..."

2. Liquid and Gaseous Fuels: And the Part They Play in Modern Power Production by Vivian Byam Lewes (1907)
"In the meantime, however, events in the gas world had gradually been opening up a field for water gas as an auxiliary to coal gas. Up to the year 1889 the ..."

3. Health in Home and Town by Bertha Millard Brown (1922)
"The first dial on the left indicates the number of ten thousand cubic feet of gas up to one hundred thousand, the limit recorded by the dial. ..."

4. A Year in a Coal-mine by Joseph Husband (1911)
"There is always some gas up under the roof at the head of a room or an entry, and when the cars were loaded we would sometimes burn it out, ..."

5. Handbook for Gas Engineers and Managers by Thomas Newbigging (1904)
"The supply of gas to ordinary public lamps is usually fixed at 5 cub. ft. per hour for common gas up to 17 candles value ; for cannel gas up to 30 candles ..."

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