Meanings
plural fillups
- 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 Times1 more example
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
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