Fill-up definition

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The act or an instance of filling up something, especially a gasoline tank.

Offered a free car wash with each fill-up.

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(idiomatic, colloquial) To annoy, or displease, by taunting, or by excessive nagging.
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To make a container full.
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(poker slang) To make a full house on the turn or the river.
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An act or process of filling up; a replenishment.
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Alternative form of fillup.
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To become full.
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To satisfy someone's hunger.

Thanks for the chocolate cake - it really filled me up!

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Fill-up Sentence Examples

  • Numerous minor chroniclers fill up the gaps, but no one of them has the idiosyncrasy which distinguishes these three writers, who illustrate the three periods of the middle ages - adolescence, complete manhood, and decadence.

  • It has therefore been proposed, for greater depths, to put four columns of tubbings of smaller diameters, 82 and 52 ft., in the shaft, and fill up the remainder of the boring with concrete, so that with thinner and lighter castings a greater depth may be reached.

  • Spurs from the Caucasus and from the Armenian highlands fill up the broad latitudinal depression between them.

  • She did not fill up the dignity of palatine, vacant since the 26th of October 1765, and governed Hungary through her son-in-law, Albert of Saxe-Teschen.

  • He's trying to fill up all the dark, empty places inside.

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