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Trick up

verb

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

... them to appoint a convenient time for his defence and cross-examination of witnesses, and imploring them not to allow their minds to be prejudiced against him, at the same time declaring that he would not "trick up an innocency with cavillations, but plainly and ingenuously declare what he knew or remembered." The charges rapidly accumulated, but Bacon still looked upon them as party moves, and was in hopes ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 - "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" • Various

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