glam up

present singular third person glams up · participle present glamming up · participle past glammed up · past glammed up

1. informaltransitiveTo make (someone or something) more glamorous.

   He would become absorbed in what he was doing and forget that they were going out to a reception at the City Hall or somewhere. Stella would appear at the study door all glammed up in her best coat and he would look up from his reading like a startled animal caught drinking at a watering hole.

   2017, Bernard MacLaverty, “Chapter 10”, in Midwinter Break, page 204

2. informalintransitiveTo make oneself more glamorous.

   Gettin' glammed up and sittin' on the fence now

   2007, Jules De Martino, Katie White, “That's Not My Name”, performed by The Ting Tings