fillup

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noun

An act or process of filling up; a replenishment.

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nounfillup (plural fillups)

plural fillups

  1. An act or process of filling up; a replenishment.

    The disadvantage of slow fillups is somewhat offset by the cost, the equivalent of $1.20 to $1.40 a gallon, Mr. Carr said.

    2007 February 18, Jim Motavalli, “A Self-Serve Station, in Your Garage”, in New York Times
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    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...

    1866, John Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianæ
  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.

    1988, Combroad, numbers 78-85, page 49

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