jump-start someone

tv. to get someone going or functioning. I need to jump-start Bill early in the morning to get him going in time to get on the road by a decent hour.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Linda	LIN-də (English), LIN-dah (German), LEEN-dah (Italian, Finnish)	English, Dutch, German, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, French, Latvian, Finnish, Hu
Milojica	-	Serbian
Fingall	-	Scottish
Tiphanie	-	French
Yehoshafat	-	Biblical Hebrew
Emi	e-mee	Japanese