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air up

transitive verb

Definition of air up

informal
: to inflate or fill (something) with air We aired up the tires, gassed up the tanks, and drove on out of Monroe at noon.— John Dufresne, Requiem, Mass., 2008

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1940, in the meaning defined above

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