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fillup

noun

Etymology

From fill + up.

  1. inherited from *upp✻
  2. inherited from *upp✻
  3. inherited from upp
  4. inherited from up
  5. compounded as fillup — “fill + up”

Definitions

  1. An act or process of filling up

    An act or process of filling up; a replenishment.

    • We had slyly ordered a few gallons of punch to be brought down to the office, to give a fillup to the worthy workmen at the close of their labors...
    • The disadvantage of slow fillups is somewhat offset by the cost, the equivalent of $1.20 to $1.40 a gallon, Mr. Carr said.

  2. Filler material.

    • […] various vocal techniques of presentation and delivery as well as how to ad-lib assorted information from programme parades as "fill-ups" at programme junctions.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fillup. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA