duke up
duke up · dukes up · duked up · duking up
To dress up; to embellish or improveTo dress up; to embellish or improve (something).
Meaning
2 senses(intransitive, slang, transitive)To dress up; to embellish or improve (something).
I need to duke you up for the party tonight.
The car has been duked up with luxury accessories.
(intransitive, slang)To square up; to get one's fists ready for a fistfight.
When he said that, I duked up.
Forms
dukes up, duking up, duked up, duked upPhrasal verbs
3 phrasal verbs- duke upTo dress up; to embellish or improve (something).
- duke outTo fight, especially with fists; to knock out (someone).
- duke inTo vouch for (someone), thus allowing them to join a gang, buy contraband from or otherwise be treated as trustworthy by criminal elements; to have been introduced to important people.
Lessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Phrasal verbs: introduction — Because it is a phrasal verb
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.