"class up" meaning in English

See class up in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: classes up [present, singular, third-person], classing up [participle, present], classed up [participle, past], classed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} class up (third-person singular simple present classes up, present participle classing up, simple past and past participle classed up)
  1. (transitive, informal) To make more classy or sophisticated Tags: informal, transitive

Inflected forms

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    {
      "form": "classed up",
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          "text": "to class up the joint",
          "type": "example"
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        {
          "ref": "2015, C.A. Portnellus, The Road Home: Book Three of Sparrow Wars in the Garden of Bliss:",
          "text": "A good looking moose working in their café probably was not her father's idea of classing up the place.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Kathy Lyons, Sliding Home:",
          "text": "It [a simple black sheath] was formal, could be classed up with my simple gold hoop earrings, and the neckline barely plunged at all.",
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        }
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          "classy",
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          "sophisticated",
          "sophisticated"
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        "(transitive, informal) To make more classy or sophisticated"
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        "informal",
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    }
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  "word": "class up"
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        "present"
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    {
      "form": "classed up",
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          "text": "A good looking moose working in their café probably was not her father's idea of classing up the place.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Kathy Lyons, Sliding Home:",
          "text": "It [a simple black sheath] was formal, could be classed up with my simple gold hoop earrings, and the neckline barely plunged at all.",
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