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hop up verb in hot rodding, to increase the power of an engine US, 1942- When it flew by us, I turned the other way/The guy in the Murcury had nothin’ to say/For it was kid in a hopped up Model A. — George Wilson (performed by Arkie Shibley and His Mountain Dew Boys), Hot Rod Race, 1950
- — John Lawlor, How to Talk Car, p. 63, 1965
- Thousands of kids are getting hold of cars and either hopping them up for speed or customizing them to some extent, usually a little of both. — Tom Wolfe, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, p. 80, 1965
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