rev

verb

1. 1

   To increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed.

   He revved the engine in a rather macho style.

   You could hear the engines revving from a mile away.

   Two in a row, everybody knows at the green light you rev it on the red line.

   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?

noun

1. 1

   Variant of revolutionClipping of revolution (of something spinning).

   He pushed the revs up and up, hurrying the car to eighty then to ninety, his huge Marchal headlights boring a safe white tunnel, nearly half a mile long, between the walls of the night.

   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!

noun

1. 1

   Variant of revenueClipping of revenue

   ad rev

noun

1. 1

   Variant of reverendClipping of reverend

Forms

plural

revs

past tense

revved

past participle

revved

present participle

revving

third person singular

revs