tune up
Verb
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Verb
tune up
- (transitive) To make adjustments (to an engine or bicycle drivetrain) in order to improve its performance.
- (intransitive) To make preparations for vigorous exercise; to warm up.
- (intransitive) To begin to sing or play music.
- (chiefly, US, transitive, idiomatic) To beat up (someone).
- 2007, Michael Berish, Reflections from the Pit, ISBN 9780595453047, (Google preview) ↗:
- “We finally stopped roustin' him and decided to tune him up instead, every chance we got.”
- “Tune him up?”
- “Yeah, that's an expression for beatin' the living dog shit outta somebody.”
- 2015, Joe Peters and Bill Fleming, Code Black, ISBN 9781329712089, p. 264 (Google preview) ↗:
- “I mean, I had to tune her up a bit. She bitched a lot and never did any work. Sometimes, you know, you just gotta get their attention, whack 'em a little."
- 2017, Jeff Gulvin, The Contract: A John Q Thriller, ISBN 9780571323838, (Google preview) ↗:
- [T]hey couldn't tune him up because the murder had to look like he died in his sleep.
- 2007, Michael Berish, Reflections from the Pit, ISBN 9780595453047, (Google preview) ↗:
- (improve the performance of an engine) soup up
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