trick out

verb

1. tr, adverb to dress up; deck out

   tricked out in frilly dresses

Idioms and Phrases

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]

Example Sentences

If I tried a trick out of turn, I might foozle and lose prestige.

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He was angry because you seemed to snub him; and you made him feel his vulgarity, and so he devised this trick out of revenge.

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Stragglers from the age of reason are set down to trick out simpering angels.

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Next morning each housewife gets up early to decorate her house and trick out herself and her children.

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Andrew shrugged his shoulders, a French trick out of harmony with his British uniform.

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