fuel up

fuel up

To fill a car's gas tank with fuel. We need to stop and fuel up before getting on the highway.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

fuel up

to fill one's tank with fuel. Let's stop here and fuel up. I need to fuel up at the next little town.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

fuel up

v.
To fill the gas tank of a vehicle with gasoline or other fuel: The family fueled up the car before leaving for the lake. I fueled the truck up so we wouldn't have to stop. It's time to go; let's fuel up.
See also: fuel, up
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • tank up
  • tank up (on something)
  • tanked
  • tanked up
  • take fuel on
  • take on fuel
  • on one's
  • on someone's
  • out of one's
  • save someone's skin
References in periodicals archive
During this period, each fuel up was matched by Caltex and branded marketer, Northern Star, with a P1 donation.
Narvacan National High School bagged the award for the school with the most post likes, La Union National High School got the award with the most Caltex fans, and Abra National High School topped the school with the most fuel ups.
Caltex donates P3-M learning tools to Laoag schools
The company has been selected to fuel UPS's new fleet of 48 liquefied natural gas package transportation trucks at a new truck fuelling station near UPS facilities in Las Vegas, Nevada.
-UPS selects Clean Fuels Corporation