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tart up
verb
to dress someone up or decorate something smartly UK, 1952
Often with the implication of tastelessness or tawdriness.- [T]hen send him back to Kansas City in time for a Hollywood hack screenwriter to come in and tart up the story. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 206, 1961
- Well, what happens is that she gives me the brutally frank version and I sort of tart it up for them. — This is Spinal Tap, 1984
- Even after they tried to steal a page from the film studios and tarted up the dining room ... the quality of the food, if anything, went down instead of up. — Robert Campbell, Alice in La-La Land, p. 44, 1987
- The dykes were as tarted up as they could get, with black pants or levis, and white go go boots. — Jennifer Blowdryer, White Trash Debutante, p. 52, 1997
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