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trick out
verb
- 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
So some of the golf carts are tricked out and look cool because people who live there want to have the nicest one.
It’s a mystery wrapped in a family drama wrapped ina police procedural, tricked out with fantasy element and social issues.
The team surgically deafened five mice and recorded their songs in a mouse-size sound studio, tricked out with infrared cameras and microphones.
So many times she’s listened to the waiters sing those bars, on her birthday and her brother’s, year after year, every milestone celebrated in that fantastical dining room tricked out with fake trees.
Edgar Allan Poe's recurrent literary fascination with premature burial helped spur a 19th-century industry of "safety coffins," tricked out with bells or escape hatches in case the morgue had been premature.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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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