"deck up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: decks up [present, singular, third-person], decking up [participle, present], decked up [participle, past], decked up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} deck up (third-person singular simple present decks up, present participle decking up, simple past and past participle decked up)
  1. (intransitive) To dress up; to deck out or gussy up oneself; to decorate. Tags: intransitive Coordinate_terms: bedeck, deck, deck out Translations (to dress up finely or elaborately): optutten (Dutch), pyntätä (Finnish), pynttäytyä (Finnish), sich schick machen (German), essere tirato a lucido (Italian), stroić się [imperfective] (Polish), wystrajać się [imperfective] (Polish), wystroić się [perfective] (Polish), embonecar (Portuguese), montar (Portuguese), emperifollar (Spanish), empapirotar [colloquial] (Spanish), emperejilar [colloquial] (Spanish)

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        "(intransitive) To dress up; to deck out or gussy up oneself; to decorate."
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      "sense": "to dress up finely or elaborately",
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