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glam up en · VERB
Meanings
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(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:
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(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
Coordinates
bedeck · deck up · deck out
Relateds
vamp up