souped-up

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souped-up

/ˈsuːpt ʌp/ UK
/ˈsupt ʌp/ US

Where it comes from

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.

adjective more souped-up · most souped-up · souped · souped up · suped-up

Of a racehorse: injected with a substance to make it run faster or to change its temperament.
slang Of an engine, a motor vehicle, etc.: modified for higher performance. $600.00 BUYS T. M. Scout with "Souped up" OX5 motor. Snappiest commercial single seater built. H. W. Mackie, Air Service, Houston, Texas.
Similar: hopped up
broadly Improved. As with the previous Omicron subvariants, it seems likely that the US will follow those regions once again, with or without the new souped-up vaccines.
US, slang Intoxicated by alcohol or drugs. If you have had any experience at all with the effect that it has upon these people when they are in situations of violence, you can understand that you cannot send these persons who are souped up on drugs to perform a delicate mission […]
Similar: juiced
New England, US, slang Excited.
Similar: juiced

Similar: pumped

verb souped · souped up · suped-up

participle, past simple past and past participle of soup-up

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adjective

Similar: pumped

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verb of a racehorse: injected with a substance to make it run faster

Español	dopado
Français	dopé

verb modified for higher performance

Español	trucado
Français	gonflé
Deutsch	aufgemotzt

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@misc{souped_up_2026,
  title = {souped-up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/souped-up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}