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DECK UP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does deck up mean?
• DECK UP (verb)
The verb DECK UP has 1 sense:
1. put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
Familiarity information: DECK UP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
attire; deck out; deck up; dress up; fancy up; fig out; fig up; get up; gussy up; overdress; prink; rig out; tog out; tog up; trick out; trick up
Context example:
The young girls were all fancied up for the party
Hypernyms (to "deck up" is one way to...):
dress; get dressed (put on clothes)
Verb group:
dress; dress up (dress in a certain manner)
costume; dress up (dress in a costume)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deck up"):
dress; plume; preen; primp (dress or groom with elaborate care)
prank (dress up showily)
tart up (dress up in a cheap and provocative way)
enrobe (adorn with a robe)
bedizen; dizen (dress up garishly and tastelessly)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
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