Gin up
verb phrase
To enliven; make more exciting; jazz up: To gin up support for his embattled plan, the President went to Capitol Hill on Wednesday/ Numbers of voters ginned up by the revelations may throw the bums out
[1887+; probably fr earlier ginger up]
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