fire up

phrasal verb

fired up; firing up; fires up

1

: to start (something) by lighting a fire

We fired up the grill for the barbecue.

2

: to cause (something) to start working

I fired up my computer and got down to work.

Before we start working let's fire up the coffeemaker.

3

: to fill (someone) with energy or enthusiasm

The coach fired up the players with a pep talk.

—usually used as (be/get) fired up

We were fired up for the concert.

Examples of fire up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Soon, the Eagles will fire up their 2025 preseason run. —Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025

Gunther arrogantly kicked Punk around, but this only fired up Phil Brooks. —Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2025

Team Jonas, get ready to fire up your Samsung devices: The Jonas Brothers inked a deal to livestream five concerts on their 2025 tour exclusively on Samsung TV Plus. —Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 July 2025

The trucks will fan out around it and fire up their measurement tools, which include mobile mesonets to track data like temperature, pressure, and wind speed; mobile Doppler LiDAR to perform a horizontal scan of the tornado at that low level; and Waugh’s blindingly bright hail-camera setup. —Colleen Hagerty, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2025

Rhymes for fire up

• buttercup
• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup