charge up

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charge up

verb charges up · charging up · charged up

transitive To recharge, to give electrical power to something. You should charge up your phone before the camping trip, as there won't be any power supplies.
idiomatic To motivate, to instill someone with determination. The coach had to charge up his players with a powerful speech before the final.
slang, transitive To deliberately infect (a person) with HIV as part of bug-chasing. The subcultural vernacular “I'll charge you up" evokes the act of charging a battery or readying a mechanism for action; […]

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@misc{charge_up_2026,
  title = {charge up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/charge%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}