yuck up

present singular third person yucks up · participle present yucking up · participle past yucked up · past yucked up

1. To spoil; to make yucky.

   The market, she notes, has been over-saturated with dresses "yucked up with a lot of trim.

   1978, Stores: The Bulletin of the N.R.D.G.A. - Volume 60, page 29

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   Paul had a Mazda RX-7, the sharp older model before they yucked it up and made it look American.

   2003, Jeremiah F. Healy, Off-season and Other Stories, page 81

   While his fellow students yucked the poem up (needless to say, they were women), he went into high dudgeon and stormed out of the seminar room, muttering something about politics in the classroom under his breath.

   2004, Studies in American Humor - Issues 11-14, page 64