Usually means: Increase energy or enthusiasm significantly.
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  1. pump up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pump up: Merriam-Webster
  3. pump-up: Wordnik
  4. pump up: Wiktionary
  5. pump up: Dictionary.com
  6. pump up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pump up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pump up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pump up: Medical dictionary

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  1. pump up: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (pump up)

verb:  (transitive) To inflate by means of a pump.
verb:  (transitive) To inflate with a pumping action.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To excite a person or group to a frenzy.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive, bodybuilding) To cause one's muscles to swell by means of focused weightlifting.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (something) to increase in intensity, salience or other traits beyond what is reasonable.
verb:  (transitive) To increase the volume of (something)

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