HOT UP


Meaning of HOT UP in English

intransitive verb

1. : to grow hot, lively, or exciting

the gossip began to hot up — Life

2. : to speed up

the air raids began to hot up about the beginning of February — George Orwell

transitive verb

1. : arouse , annoy

getting him all hotted up — Lord Beaverbrook

2. : to make livelier or speedier

a protest against … the genteel hotting up of Shakespearean productions robbed of all poetry — Stephen Spender

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.