English Dictionary

soup up

verb

(informal, transitive) To modify the engine of (a motor vehicle) to give a higher performance than the specifications. / (by extension) To embellish with many additions.

He decided to soup up his car with a new engine.

意味（1）

(informal, transitive) To modify the engine of (a motor vehicle) to give a higher performance than the specifications.

Imagine souping up a Mini with a Cosworth engine: the car would fly.

意味（2）

(by extension) To embellish with many additions.

They are dickering over a tax cut small enough, in a bill souped up with gadgets, to escape or override a veto.