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muss up

muss up verb: to thoroughly muss something.

Verb

muss up (third-person singular simple present musses up, present participle mussing up, simple past and past participle mussed up)

  1. (transitive) To thoroughly muss something.
  2. (obsolete, slang) To treat roughly; to beat up.
    • Tuxedo is a good-hearted, gentle, quiet, soft-voiced tobacco[…] no "fighting spirit" in it anywhere to muss up your tongue.1916 March 11, “[advertisement] You Men Who Have Pipes”, in Saturday Evening Post
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see muss, up.

Forms of muss up

third-person singular presentmusses up
present participlemussing up
past participlemussed up
pastmussed up

Questions about muss up

What does muss up mean?
Muss up means to thoroughly muss something.
What part of speech is muss up?
Muss up is a verb.
What is the past tense of muss up?
The past tense of muss up is mussed up.

Words near muss up in the dictionary

  1. musrol
  2. musrole
  3. musroles
  4. musrols
  5. muss
  6. muss up
  7. muss-be
  8. Mussa
  9. mussable
  10. Mussaf
  11. Mussafim

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