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suit up
Idioms and Phrases
Put on clothes for a particular activity, as in Come on, fellows, it's time to suit up for the hockey game . [Mid-1900s]Example Sentences
Back-to-back Derby winner Yoenis Céspedes will now suit up as an American League outfield reserve.
Andrew Garfield, the latest actor to suit up as Spidey in The Amazing Spider-Man, agrees.
As his sidekicks suit up, Jones spreads out his costume on his mom's dining room table.
Time to suit up: Tomorrow, the 2010 Wingnut Super Bowl kicks off on the Washington Mall.
But wrestling fans know better—Randy “The Ram” Robinson is going to suit up for an old-fashioned ass-kicking.
Then some one was sought who would take the suit up, but no one was ready to do that.
Now Gunnar tells them the whole story of the suit up to that time.
He drew the suit up over the clothes he wore and closed the front with one pull of a metal tab.
Calhoun blinked at her, in the act of hauling the vacuum suit up his chest and over his shoulders.
The four of them hurtling on together, but inside that first suit up there on the front of the gravity rope, Dunbar was dead.
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