fuel up

phrasal verb

fueled up or fuelled up; fueling up or fuelling up; fuels up

: to put fuel into a car, airplane, etc.

They fueled up for their long journey home.

Examples of fuel up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The man subsequently drove a semi-truck onto both sites and illegally fueled up from multiple pumps last December, according to police. —Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2025

As of Friday, the cheapest California county to fuel up your car was Imperial County near the southeast border of the state, according to AAA. —Sacramento Bee, 22 Feb. 2025

But if strong north winds continued to blow, The Times reported, the blaze would engulf remote mountain areas inaccessible to firefighters and fuel up on dense brushland. —Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2025

Everyone knows a skier who prides themselves on skiing through lunch, only to fuel up on pocket jerky and maybe a PBR on the lift. —Lizzy Rosenberg, Outside Online, 19 Jan. 2025

Rhymes for fuel up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup