noun

• (colloquial, countable) Clipping of ampere.
• (colloquial, countable) Clipping of amplifier.
• (colloquial, countable) Clipping of ampoule.
  "The physician had included a note which said: "Dear Miss ........, I could not get the name of your friend over the phone so I am sending two prescriptions for Methedrine amps and one prescription for Drinalfa ten cc vials."
• (colloquial, countable) Clipping of amputee.

verb

• (colloquial, usually with up) To amplify.
  "He asked the disk jockey to amp it up."
• (colloquial, usually with up) To excite.
  "Well you're very amped up today, what's got you so excited?"
• (colloquial, usually with up) To intensify or increase.
  "Amping the Justin Timberlake cameos and revving up Jiggytron 5000, these Peas want to be on Middle America's fickle plate — losing little dread-whippin' imaginativeness in the wizzash."
• (colloquial, usually with up) To connect to amplifiers.
  "and even the Velvet Underground were still only amping up conventional instruments"

noun

• (biochemistry) Initialism of adenosine monophosphate.
• (biochemistry) Initialism of antimicrobial peptide.
• (Internet) Initialism of accelerated mobile page.
  "That strict nature of the AMP HTML means that attention to detail is necessary. The pages must be properly validated in order to function every time — and in order to amp up your place in Google's rankings, your AMP site must function every time."

name

• (biblical) Abbreviation of Amplified Bible.