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trick out

verb

  1. tr, adverb to dress up; deck out

    tricked out in frilly dresses

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Ornament or adorn, especially ostentatiously or garishly, as in She was all tricked out in beads and fringe and what-have-you . This term uses trick in the sense of “dress up” or “decorate,” a usage dating from about 1500. [Early 1700s]

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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