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Wordy US speaker, maybe, needs rev up (7)

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I believe the answer is:

verbose

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'wordy' is the definition.
(I know that wordy can be written as verbose)

'us speaker maybe needs rev up' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'rev' is 'ver' which is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'bose' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for verbose that I've seen before include "Using more words than are needed" , "Boringly long-winded" , "Using too many words, too talkative" , "Using more words than necessary" , "not given to Trappist ways" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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