Fill-up meaning

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

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

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(poker slang) To make a full house on the turn or the river.
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Origin of fill-up

Fill-up Sentence Examples

  • wide, with smaller ones to fill up the interstices.

  • Various other results of the tendency to fill up blank names in the gospel history must be set aside on the same ground; it was, for example, believed that Mark was one of the disciples who "went back" because of the "hard saying" (pseudo-Hippolyt., De LXX Apostolis in Cod.

  • The atoms, they said, do not fill up the universe; there are void spaces between them.

  • Paulo in Brazil supplied Sars with representatives of all the three in his Norwegian aquaria, in some of which the little Macrothrix elegans " multiplied to such an extraordinary extent as at last to fill up the water with immense shoals of individuals."

  • 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.

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