Usually means: Increasing engine speed; loud sound.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. revving: Merriam-Webster
  2. revving: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. revving: Collins English Dictionary
  4. revving: Vocabulary.com
  5. Revving, revving: Wordnik
  6. revving: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. revving: Wiktionary
  8. revving: Dictionary.com
  9. revving: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. revving: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. revving: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. revving: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. revving: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (revving)

noun:  The act by which an engine is revved.
noun:  (Internet, uncountable) A technique for reducing web page loading times by assigning far-future expiration dates to the resources on the page (so that the browser caches them indefinitely) and, if changes are needed, using different filenames for those resources.

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