Definition of "warm up" []

• To make an audience enthusiastic or animated before a show (verb)
• To reach a normal operating temperature (of a car for example) (verb)
• To reheat food (verb)
• To become warmer (verb)
• To prepare for executing an already-learned activity by a limited amount of additional practice. (verb)

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• "There were only twelve minutes or so until I teed off, not enough time to walk up the hill to The Smiling Matteos place, ask him why he hadnt said anything about tokens, buy one, come back to the range, and warm up my swinging muscles."
• "Huddling against the far wall, I waited until I felt the stream start to warm up on my feet, and then inched my way in."
• "A single campfire burned near the center of town, where the night-watch gathered to warm up every hour or so."