fruit up

Verb

fruit up (third-person singular simple present fruits up, present participle fruiting up, simple past and past participle fruited up)

1. To become full of fruit, seeds, or spores.
   • The grass and weeds come up to my waist and the plum trees are already fruiting up, though most of the fruit'll go to the wasps and the worms, Vinny says, 'cause he can't be arsed to pick it.2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 12
2. To add fruit; To adorn or embellish with fruit.
   • Amy spent the morning baking and this afternoon brought the result — dainty little fancies all fudged and fruited up.1971, Francis Oswald Bennett, March of the Little Men, page 176
   • Even Andy's most recent show featured the star all fruited up as Carmen Miranda for the venerable Manilow number "Copacabana."1998 May 12, Bruce Vilanch, “Andy Williams and me”, in The Advocate
3. (derogatory, idiomatic) To grope a young boy.
   • I had been "fruited up." There was no distinction made back then that this man was a pedophile, and even my mother told me that this is what queer people do.2000, Kevin George Alderson, Beyond Coming Out: Experiences of Positive Gay Identity, →ISBN, page 36
   • My experience with the brothers was that if you were one of their favorites you would be regularly groped. We kids called it “being fruited up."2014, Eduard Fischer, Chasing the Phantom, →ISBN