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Doll up   /dɑl əp/   Listen
Doll up

verb
1.
Use special care in dressing, making-up, etc..  Synonyms: do up, glam up, pretty up.






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"Doll up" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mrs. Bunker had reached the seat where the little girl and her brother had been sleeping. The mother picked the Japanese doll up from where it had fallen to the floor of ...
— Six Little Bunkers at Grandpa Ford's • Laura Lee Hope

... me and says they's two guys outside that wants to see the Kid. I hopped out to take a flash at 'em, but the Kid has been reached, and when I come on the scene he's shakin' hands with 'em. One of these guys was dressed the way the public thinks bookmakers and con men doll up and he wore one of them sweet, trustin' innocent faces like you see on the villain in a dime novel. He looked to me like he'd steal a sunflower seed from ...
— Kid Scanlan • H. C. Witwer

... was more leery on that point than about anything else; for you know how giddy they doll up at them joints, and while her taste in stained glass windows might be strictly up to date, when it comes to flossin' up for the Maison Maxixe—well, no gray-and-white, back-number regalia would do there. If we wa'n't shut out, we'd ...
— Shorty McCabe on the Job • Sewell Ford



Words linked to "Doll up" :   groom, neaten



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