"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
    Sense id: en-pimp_up-en-verb-Aw49xCN8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 91 9 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 83 17
  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 Disambiguation of 'informal: to decorate, prettify': 26 74

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for pimp up meaning in English (2.8kB)

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      "sense": "informal: to decorate, prettify",
      "word": "tuunata"
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      "sense": "informal: to decorate, prettify",
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      "sense": "informal: to decorate, prettify",
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    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "informal: to decorate, prettify",
      "word": "tunear"
    }
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