load up

verb loads up · loading up · loaded up

1. transitive To fill (a vehicle, vessel, room, etc.) with a load of cargo or similar. We loaded up the wagon with supplies.
2. transitive To load (things) as cargo or similar. Q: What should we do with these other boxes? A: Load 'em up, same as the others.

   Opposite: offload

3. intransitive To receive a load of cargo or similar. The wagon halted for an hour to load up with supplies.
4. ambitransitive, idiomatic To fully load (a weapon).
5. ambitransitive To load (software) fully into memory. The game loaded up and he instantly grabbed the game controller.
6. intransitive, slang To intoxicate oneself with alcohol or drugs; to get drunk or get high. John Bender (Judd Nelson): You load up, you party… Brian Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall): No, we get dressed up, but we don't— we don't get high.