(transitive, idiomatic) To improve. / (transitive) To shine; to make shiny. / (intransitive, idiomatic) To become more muscular. / (intransitive, idiomatic) To study hard to learn a particular subject.

(cooking, New Zealand) A traditionally Maori soup/stew made with potatoes, pork and other ingredients.

(transitive) To cook or prepare by boiling. / (intransitive, idiomatic) To become more excited, intense or exciting.

Alternative form of letup

A summary.

(Scotland, slang) pregnant

(transitive, idiomatic) To make something, especially a machine, better (faster, bigger etc.); to soup up. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hop, up.

Up-beat; positive; progressive.

simple past tense and past participle of lather up / (idiomatic) In a nervous, anxious, or vexed state; in a lather.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lather up