How do you pronounce souped-up?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsupt ʌp/.

souped-up

/ˈsupt ʌp/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.30 in modern English

Syllables: souped-up
IPA: /ˈsupt ʌp/

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Meaning

adj

Of a racehorse: injected with a substance to make it run faster or to change its temperament.

adj

Of an engine, a motor vehicle, etc.: modified for higher performance.

Slang

adj

Improved.

adj

Intoxicated by alcohol or drugs.

American usage; Slang

adj

Excited.

American usage; Slang

verb

simple past and past participle of soup-up

Example Sentences

"$600.00 BUYS T. M. Scout with "Souped up" OX5 motor. Snappiest commercial single seater built. H. W. Mackie, Air Service, Houston, Texas."
"[W]ill it be possible to mount a larger engine for use in La Paz? I doubt very much if the standard 165 would get off the ground up here with a student. I wish you would take that up with the factory and see if they can put out a job with a suped-up seven-cylinder job. The R-540 I think it is."
"AUTOMOBILES: SAFETY; Teen-Agers With ‘Souped Up’ Vehicles Urged to Be Careful on Labor Day"
"TALKING SHOP with young hot-rodder friends, Mrs. Bush keeps grandson waiting in his souped-up car […] at Eddie's Market, social center of South Brooksville, Maine (pop. 150), where she is vacationing with daughter."
"The suspicion grows that this souped-up erudition disguises a paucity of thought, which of all things seems to be based on a lack of historical good sense, or, if you will, of good historical sense."
"In the drinking that follows that afternoon it is a wonder that no one dies of alcohol poisoning. The final kegs die at around 1800 hours or so, and that is when Coolidge's wife Melanie starts making her souped-up Atomic Kamikazes."

Etymology

Uncertain; the fact that the earlier senses seem to be the horse racing cant and United States Navy slang ones suggests a derivation from soup (“liquid food item”), connoting a horse or a person being filled with a liquid. Alternatively, it has been suggested that the term is a modified clipping of supe(r), with reference to an airplane or automobile engine being supercharged: see, for example, the quotation from 1925. This sense appears to post-date the horse-racing and navy slang senses.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈsupt ʌp/
British English: /ˈsuːpt ʌp/

Usage

Slang
American usage

Inflected Forms

more souped-up (comparative) most souped-up (superlative) souped (alternative) souped up (alternative) suped-up (alternative)

Phrases

soup up

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