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class up

class up verb: to make more classy or sophisticated.

Verb

class up (third-person singular simple present classes up, present participle classing up, simple past and past participle classed up)

  1. (informal, transitive) To make more classy or sophisticated
    • to class up the joint
    • A good looking moose working in their café probably was not her father's idea of classing up the place.2015, C.A. Portnellus, The Road Home: Book Three of Sparrow Wars in the Garden of Bliss

Forms of class up

third-person singular presentclasses up
present participleclassing up
past participleclassed up
pastclassed up

Questions about class up

What does class up mean?
Class up means to make more classy or sophisticated.
What part of speech is class up?
Class up is a verb.
What is the past tense of class up?
The past tense of class up is classed up.

Words near class up in the dictionary

  1. class suit
  2. class suits
  3. class tourism
  4. class tourist
  5. class tourists
  6. class up
  7. class variable
  8. class variables
  9. class war
  10. class warfare
  11. class warrior

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