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third-person singular simple present revs, present participle revving, simple past and past participle revved
To increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed. quotations examples
Two in a row, everybody knows at the green light you rev it on the red line.
1979, Al Greenwood, Lou Gramm, “Rev on the Red Line”, in Head Games
It is impossible to see inside the mind of a killer. What was he thinking, the young man who sat at the wheel of the white van at the top of Las Ramblas and purposefully revved the engine? What warped ideology, what distorted belief system, what bitter life experience had brought him to this fateful tipping point?
2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer
plural revs
revolution (of something spinning) quotations examples
Up came the revs again, slam the door shut, kick the stick off the throttle and up through the gears, down the others side! Whee! Made it again!
2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 175
Abbreviation of reverend. examples