snazz up

present singular third person snazzes up · participle present snazzing up · participle past snazzed up · past snazzed up

1. USinformaltransitiveTo improve appearance or appeal by increasing stylishness or functionality, or by adding other attractive features.

   He worked with me from the very beginning to tighten and brighten my writing, snazz up my layouts.

   1983, Donna Hagemann, edited by Judith Clabes, New Guardians of the Press: Selected Profiles of America's Women Newspaper Editors, →ISBN, page 88

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   And wouldn't it snazz up the entrance to have a stained-glass window replace the clear one over the front door?

   2003, Nora Roberts, Key of Light, →ISBN, page 186

   The Great White Way has in recent years increasingly banked on resurrections of Golden Oldie musicals and dramas from earlier decades, snazzed up with cinematic stars as box-office bait.

   2003 June 1, Misha Berson, “On Broadway, old wine in snazzy new bottles”, in Seattle Times, retrieved 08 Jan 2009

   Synonyms: enhance, jazz up