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musses up

musses up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of muss up.

Meaning of muss up

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.

Questions about musses up

What is musses up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Musses up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of muss up.

Words near musses up in the dictionary

  1. Mussendens
  2. Mussendom
  3. Musser
  4. Mussers
  5. musses
  6. musses up
  7. Musset
  8. Mussetian
  9. mussick
  10. mussicks
  11. mussid

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