"pimp up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: pimps up [present, singular, third-person], pimping up [participle, present], pimped up [participle, past], pimped up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} pimp up (third-person singular simple present pimps up, present participle pimping up, simple past and past participle pimped up)
  1. (informal, intransitive) To get dressed up in showy clothing or jewellery. Tags: informal, intransitive Synonyms: dress up
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  2. (informal, transitive) To decorate or prettify in a showy manner. Tags: informal, transitive Synonyms: pimp out Translations (informal: to decorate, prettify): tuunata (Finnish), kruusata (Finnish), tuner (French), tunear (Galician), aufmotzen (German), aufpimpen (German), picować [imperfective] (Polish), odpicowywać [imperfective] (Polish), odpicować [perfective] (Polish), tunear (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-pimp_up-en-verb-lQoEZTQ7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 53 47 Disambiguation of 'informal: to decorate, prettify': 24 76

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "informal: to decorate, prettify",
      "word": "tunear"
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      "sense": "informal: to decorate, prettify",
      "word": "aufmotzen"
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