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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

glam up en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (informal, transitive) To make (someone or something) more glamorous.
    • He would become absorbed in what he was doing and forget that they were going out to a reception at the City Hall or somewhere. Stella would appear at the study door all glammed up in her best coat and he would look up from his reading like a startled animal caught drinking at a watering hole. 2017, Bernard MacLaverty, “Chapter 10”, in Midwinter Break, page 204:
  2. (informal, intransitive) To make oneself more glamorous.
    • Gettin' glammed up and sittin' on the fence now 2007, Jules De Martino, Katie White, “That's Not My Name”, performed by The Ting Tings:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
glams up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
glamming up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
glammed up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
glammed up Tense=Past lexicographic

Coordinates

bedeck · deck up · deck out

Relateds

vamp up