dude up

verb

To dress up; to dress in smart or special clothes.

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Meanings

verbdude up (third-person singular simple present dudes up, present participle duding up, simple past and past participle duded up)

present singular third person dudes up · participle present duding up · participle past duded up · past duded up

  1. USambitransitiveTo dress up; to dress in smart or special clothes.

    He’s up against the wall, duded up like the Marlboro Man, his hips cocked and his hat tilted low.

    2015 October 8, Ben Brantley, “Review: ‘Fool for Love,’ a Kinship That Breaks Hearts and Knuckles”, in New York Times
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    No real hand would ever dude himself up in Wild West clothes, like chaps with silver conchas and fifty-dollar boots so skintight the man's feet were starting to curl like a ram's horns.

    2014, Penelope Williamson, The Outsider, page 168
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