单词 | souped |
释义 | > as lemmasˈsouped ˈsouped adj. (also 'souped-up) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > [adjective] > modified to increase power or efficiency hotted-up1928 souped1931 hopped-up1945 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [adjective] > modified to increase power souped1931 hopped-up1945 1931 Automotive Industries 30 May 826/1 Ray Keech's run at Daytona Beach in the White Triplex powered with three ‘souped-up’ Liberty engines. 1941 Time 18 Aug. 76/2 Its hero, Slave Trader Matthew Flood, is built like a souped-up Abraham Lincoln. 19491 [see sense 3]. 1956 D. Walker Harry Black xiii. 196 You're like a souped-up version of my mother. 1957 New Yorker 2 Nov. 95/2 Their superb High Fidelity components reproduce all the sounds of the original..with no ‘souped-up’ tones, squeaks or other distortions. 1960 News Chron. 16 June 4/7 A specially cast manifold for the souped version of the Mini-Austin. 1965 Listener 18 Nov. 795/1 As if lacking confidence in his own directorial inventiveness, Visconti takes recourse during one sequence to a modulated version of Fellini's style, and at another juncture provides his audience with souped-up..Antonioni. 1975 B. Garfield Death Sentence (1976) ii. 11 A souped-up car with enormous rear tires growled past him. 1980 SLR Camera July 7/1 News from the Colonies tells us that Ilford have introduced a ‘souped-up’ 1D-11 for processing black and white film in the USA. < as lemmas |
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