do up

Verb

do up (third-person singular simple present does up, present participle doing up, simple past did up, past participle done up)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To fasten (a piece of clothing, etc.); to tighten (a nut etc.)
   • I can't do up my shirt. The button is missing.
   • Help me do up this zipper.

   Antonyms:

   undo

2. (colloquial, idiomatic, transitive) To redecorate (a room, etc.); to make improvements to (a home or domestic property).
   • Near-synonyms: fix up, spruce up, vamp up
   • I'm going to do up the living room next.

   Synonyms:

   fix up, spruce up, vamp up

3. (idiomatic, informal, transitive) To execute a task or performance; to execute it well.
   • This time I'm going to do it up right.
   • Previously they had cut corners on the dinner menu, but this time they really did it up.
4. (idiomatic, transitive) To pack together and envelop; to pack up, tie up, or both.
   • I did up the parcel with string and took it to the post office.
5. (dated, transitive) To accomplish thoroughly.
6. (archaic, transitive) To starch and iron.
   • a rich gown of velvet, and a ruff done up with the famous yellow starch1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 20, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC
7. (slang) To beat up; to physically assault.
8. (transitive) To style (someone's hair); (especially) to give someone (i.e., oneself or another) an updo.