"macho up" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "machos up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "machoing up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "machoed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "machoed up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "macho up (third-person singular simple present machos up, present participle machoing up, simple past and past participle machoed up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Tameka L. Harvey-Cooper, No Extra Faces, page 62:",
          "text": "Ezra lets me have my way, yet he knows when to macho up and say I'm wrong or to simply say no.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To man up; to act in a tough or assertive way."
      ],
      "id": "en-macho_up-en-verb-DPEgn-QE",
      "links": [
        [
          "man up",
          "man up"
        ],
        [
          "tough",
          "tough"
        ],
        [
          "assertive",
          "assertive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) To man up; to act in a tough or assertive way."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "macho up"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "machos up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "machoing up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "machoed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "machoed up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "macho up (third-person singular simple present machos up, present participle machoing up, simple past and past participle machoed up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Tameka L. Harvey-Cooper, No Extra Faces, page 62:",
          "text": "Ezra lets me have my way, yet he knows when to macho up and say I'm wrong or to simply say no.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To man up; to act in a tough or assertive way."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "man up",
          "man up"
        ],
        [
          "tough",
          "tough"
        ],
        [
          "assertive",
          "assertive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) To man up; to act in a tough or assertive way."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "macho up"
}