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Trick up   /trɪk əp/   Listen
Trick up

verb
1.
Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive.  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.  "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"






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"Trick up" Quotes from Famous Books



... that nitro wouldn't move. What I got is dirt-blowing dynamite, the kind powder companies sell for making drainage ditches and blowing stumps and so on. I didn't know whether I should have to use it, but I always like to have a trick up my sleeve. Powder is ordinarily too expensive to employ when fresnos can work, yet it's just the thing in a pinch. We're in an emergency now. If it should set in and snow right along, with one storm on top of ...
— The Iron Furrow • George C. Shedd



Words linked to "Trick up" :   tog up, dress, tart up, fig up, enrobe, prank, costume, underdress, plume, dress down, primp, get dressed, bedizen, dizen, preen, fancy up



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