gin up

David Bergdahl bergdahl at OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU
Tue Nov 5 13:57:01 UTC 2002


I've heard "gin up" several times this election cycle, the last time from a
WSJ reporter on CNBC.  DARE has a 1970 cite "I'll see if I can gin up this
meeting" with the same sense of "To stir up, get (something) going"-- is
this an attempt to sound folksy, a genuine revival or what?
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