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trick out

verb

  1. tr, adverb to dress up; deck out

    tricked out in frilly dresses

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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]
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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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