pump up
verb
pumped up; pumping up; pumps up
1
a
: to fill with enthusiasm or excitement
b
: to fill with or as if with air : inflate
2
Examples of pump up in a Sentence
the crowd was pumped up by the band's rocking performance
that pop diva is trying to pump up album sales with an extended publicity tour
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Soucy respected Miller for trying to pump up his team.
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Peter Baugh, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Gamestop Gamestop has their Switch 2 landing page up as well, if you're still invested in the meme stock and want to pump up the valuation a bit.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
As a result, a provision originally pitched to protect politicians from big-spending wealthy rivals was turned into a way to push aside campaign limits and pump up the political funds of any candidate willing to break the self-funding threshold.
—Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2025
Gamestop Gamestop has their Switch 2 landing page up as well, if you're still invested in the meme stock and want to pump up the valuation a bit.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
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Peter Baugh, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Gamestop Gamestop has their Switch 2 landing page up as well, if you're still invested in the meme stock and want to pump up the valuation a bit.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
As a result, a provision originally pitched to protect politicians from big-spending wealthy rivals was turned into a way to push aside campaign limits and pump up the political funds of any candidate willing to break the self-funding threshold.
—Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2025
Gamestop Gamestop has their Switch 2 landing page up as well, if you're still invested in the meme stock and want to pump up the valuation a bit.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for pump up
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“Pump up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pump%20up. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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