fruit up

present singular third person fruits up · participle present fruiting up · participle past fruited up · past fruited up

1. To become full of fruit, seeds, or spores.

   The grass and weeds come up to my waist and the plum trees are already fruiting up, though most of the fruit'll go to the wasps and the worms, Vinny says, 'cause he can't be arsed to pick it.

   2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 12

2. To add fruit; To adorn or embellish with fruit.

   Miranda would appear all fruited-up many times.

   1984, Andrew Marum, Frank Parise, Follies and Foibles: A View of 20th Century Fads, page 71

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   Amy spent the morning baking and this afternoon brought the result — dainty little fancies all fudged and fruited up.

   1971, Francis Oswald Bennett, March of the Little Men, page 176

   Even Andy's most recent show featured the star all fruited up as Carmen Miranda for the venerable Manilow number "Copacabana."

   1998 May 12, Bruce Vilanch, “Andy Williams and me”, in The Advocate

   "All fruited up like that?" I look to Ritchie. "That's quite a gay shandy," he says. "Which most people get ridiculed for. But I figured it's good after a scrap." So I switch to lager, while Ritchie stays with the lemonade beer.

   2009, Esquire: The Magazine for Men - Volume 152, page 123

3. derogatoryidiomaticTo grope a young boy.

   My experience with the brothers was that if you were one of their favorites you would be regularly groped. We kids called it “being fruited up."

   2014, Eduard Fischer, Chasing the Phantom, →ISBN

   1 more example

   I had been "fruited up." There was no distinction made back then that this man was a pedophile, and even my mother told me that this is what queer people do.

   2000, Kevin George Alderson, Beyond Coming Out: Experiences of Positive Gay Identity, →ISBN, page 36