fillip

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PS: Buying a 10 gallons of gas for a fillip is 63 pounds. How frequently are you buying 63 pounds of plastic?

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Quick take

anything that tends to arouse; "his approval was an added fillip"

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noun

anything that tends to arouse; "his approval was an added fillip"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for fillip.

noun

anything that tends to arouse; "his approval was an added fillip"

Example sentences

PS: Buying a 10 gallons of gas for a fillip is 63 pounds. How frequently are you buying 63 pounds of plastic?

Aaron isn't the first person whose life and untimely death has been a fillip to a cause. Aaron's story today has 3 strands.

This setback could have been the fillip a better, more aggressive candidate would welcome.

Turn a 7 minute fillip into a 12 minute fill up. On a trip that long, my wife is generally along as we'll, so we can trade off shifts driving.

The coal mines are probably one of the biggest corrupt sectors in India but a great deal of changes have taken place recently which has given a fillip to local production. A lot of Indian thermal power plants ran severely under capacity a few years back and that is changing now.

This seems to me like a whole genre, it just stood out because of the anti-conspiracy theory fillip. I can hardly think of anything I've read in a long time that attacks conspiracy theories, specific ones or in general, without promoting an unbelievable one as an alternative.

As much of the northern hemisphere enters spring we could collectively do with a fillip to jolt us into a more optimistic mindset The only value in this proposal I see is that if you are working on a tedious April Fools prank then yes you should drop it, which is true whatever year we are in.