tank up or gas up

[ostap77]

" We are running out of gas. Pull over we have to gas up"

OR

"We are running out of gas. Pull over we have to tank up"

For me "gas up" sounds more like you are getting gas from a gas station, whereas "tank up" means that you are about to retrieve a spare tank of gas from the tunk of your car. Is it correct?

 

[Ouisch]

In AmE, we'd say either "gas up" or "fill up," never "tank up."

 

[ostap77]

In AmE, we'd say either "gas up" or "fill up," never "tank up."

Thanks for clarification!:up:

 

[ostap77]

Thanks for clarification!:up:

What about tank up? Do you ever use it?

 

[RonBee]

I had never heard of tank up, but you could Google it and see what you get.

 

[ostap77]

I had never heard of tank up, but you could Google it and see what you get.

Are they both transative? Fill up and gas up.

"I need to gas up my car."

OR

"I need to gas my car up.''

 

[RonBee]

Yes, both verbs take an object. (transitive)

 

[ostap77]

Yes, both verbs take an object. (transitive)

Thanks for correcting my spelling. Don't get to write much in English.

 

[BobK]

'Tanked up' exists in Br Eng, but it means drunk. A person can be tanked up, but not a car. (And I don't think I've ever met the infinite - it's always in the form 'tanked up'.) It's informal and jocular - a bit like 'well oiled'.

b

 

[ostap77]

'Tanked up' exists in Br Eng, but it means drunk. A person can be tanked up, but not a car. (And I don't think I've ever met the infinite - it's always in the form 'tanked up'.) It's informal and jocular - a bit like 'well oiled'.

b

I was pretty much sure about the two phrasal verbs "to gas up" and "fill up".

The thing is that I was not sure about the meaning of "tank up".
When I looked it up in a dictionary called "LONGMAN DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH'' it says "tank up" to put petrol in your car so that the tank is full. What do you think of that one?

 

[Allen165]

Yes, both verbs take an object. (transitive)

So what you're saying is, "we have to gas up" would be wrong and "we have to gas up our/the car" would be correct?

 

[ostap77]

So what you're saying is, "we have to gas up" would be wrong and "we have to gas up our/the car" would be correct?

I was just saying that the definition of "tank up'' given in a LONGMAN dictionary mentioned in my previous post seems to be incorrect or not widely used.

Gas up and fill up are both correct and they may take an object.

 

[ostap77]

I was just saying that the definition of "tank up'' given in a LONGMAN dictionary mentioned in my previous post seems to be incorrect or not widely used.

Gas up and fill up are both correct and they may take an object.

What is your opinion Jasmin 165 on "tank up" I mean its defenition?

 

[Allen165]

I was just saying that the definition of "tank up'' given in a LONGMAN dictionary mentioned in my previous post seems to be incorrect or not widely used.

Gas up and fill up are both correct and they may take an object.

My question was directed to RonBee.

I've never heard anyone say "tank up."

 

[BobK]

I've never met it, but they use a corpus I think, so its use must be attested somewhere. (Incidentally - there was a typo in my last post [which I could defend as betraying a Lusophone tendency, but in fact was just a slip]: infintIVe.)

b

 

[RonBee]

So what you're saying is, "we have to gas up" would be wrong and "we have to gas up our/the car" would be correct?

"We have to gas up" seems fine to me. Perhaps that is because the object (the car) is implied.