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bronze up

bronze up verb: to cover oneself in one's own excrement, chiefly to disrupt custodial processes or as an attention-seeking act in prison.

Verb

bronze up (third-person singular simple present bronzes up, present participle bronzing up, simple past and past participle bronzed up)

  1. (Australia, intransitive, slang) To cover oneself in one's own excrement, chiefly to disrupt custodial processes or as an attention-seeking act in prison.

Forms of bronze up

third-person singular presentbronzes up
present participlebronzing up
past participlebronzed up
pastbronzed up

Origin of bronze up

An allusion to bronzing, or tanning one's skin.

Questions about bronze up

What does bronze up mean?
Bronze up means to cover oneself in one's own excrement, chiefly to disrupt custodial processes or as an attention-seeking act in prison.
What part of speech is bronze up?
Bronze up is a verb.
What is the past tense of bronze up?
The past tense of bronze up is bronzed up.

Words near bronze up in the dictionary

  1. bronze race
  2. bronze script
  3. Bronze Star
  4. Bronze Stars
  5. bronze steel
  6. bronze up
  7. bronze whaler
  8. bronze whalers
  9. bronze yellow
  10. bronze yellows
  11. bronze-wing

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