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speccing up

speccing up is the present participle and gerund of spec up.

Meaning of spec up

Verb

spec up (third-person singular simple present specs up, present participle speccing up or spec'ing up, simple past and past participle specced up or spec'd up)

  1. (UK, informal, transitive) To improve, optimize, or maximize the attributes of (something).
    • The mech side of this is a tinkerer's paradise, allowing you to spec up your squad's weapons and armour to your heart's content, at least once you have built up the confidence to move away from stock setups.2018 June 21, “BattleTech review – initially ponderous, then glorious”, in The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    spec out

Questions about speccing up

What is speccing up the present participle and gerund of?
Speccing up is the present participle and gerund of spec up.

Words near speccing up in the dictionary

  1. specchie
  2. Speccie
  3. speccies
  4. speccing
  5. speccing out
  6. speccing up
  7. speccy
  8. Spece
  9. Speces
  10. SPECI
  11. special

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Adapted from Wiktionary: speccing up (page history and authors); spec up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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