spark up
verb1
To rekindle.
2
To make more exotic or fun.
3
To light up; light a cigarette or start smoking a pipe, bong, etc.
4
Slang To light a cigarette etc. for (a person).
- Spark me up, mate.
5
To initiate (a conversation, debate etc.).
6
Informal, Of a railway To provide electrification.
- Again, to go back to the history of British Railways, there were moves to introduce electrification more widely when the West Coast Main Line was sparked up in the 1960s, but this was rejected by dyed-in-the-wool old regional railway managers who did not like the hassle of putting up the wires.2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 47: