fire up
phrasal verbfire somebody up
- to make somebody excited or interested in something
- She's all fired up about her new job.
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fire something up
- (informal) to start a machine, piece of equipment, computer program, etc.
- We need to fire up one of the generators.
- Let me fire up another window (= on the computer screen).