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tricked out

tricked out is the past participle of trick out.

Meaning of trick out

Verb

trick out (third-person singular simple present tricks out, present participle tricking out, simple past and past participle tricked out)

  1. (informal, transitive) To dress or decorate in an especially fancy, elaborate, or excessive manner.
    • Tom was to be sure, what is called a good boy; he never soiled his clothes, as I did. I was always considered as a rantipole, for whom any thing was good enough. But when I saw my brother tricked out in new clothes, and his old duds covering me like a scarecrow, I appeal to any honourable mind...1829, [Frederick Marryat], chapter V, in The Naval Officer; or, Scenes and Adventures in the Life of Frank Mildmay. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 150
    Synonyms:
    adorn, embellish, festoon
  2. (informal, transitive) Of a motor vehicle, etc.: to mod or customize an object, typically for the purposes of personalization and enhancing performance capabilities such as the ability to perform stunts.
    • His friends were particularly impressed with the way he tricked out his Ruckus.
    Synonyms:
    customize, modify

Adjective

tricked out (comparative more tricked out, superlative most tricked out)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, sometimes hyphenated) Decorated, dressed, or customized in an especially fancy, elaborate, or excessive manner.
    • It’s a humiliating moment, to be sure. Tripp is riding to school with a bunch of other kids when a classmate pulls up alongside the bus driving a sweet, tricked-out truck, attractive young lady at his side, and shoots Tripp a derisive look.2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2017

Forms of tricked out

comparativemore tricked out
superlativemost tricked out

Questions about tricked out

What does tricked out mean?
Tricked out means decorated, dressed, or customized in an especially fancy, elaborate, or excessive manner.
What is tricked out the past participle of?
Tricked out is the past participle of trick out.
What part of speech is tricked out?
Tricked out is an adjective.

Words near tricked out in the dictionary

  1. trick-or-treats
  2. trickable
  3. trickdom
  4. tricked
  5. tricked off
  6. tricked out
  7. tricked up
  8. tricked-out
  9. tricked-up
  10. trickee
  11. trickees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tricked out (page history and authors); trick out (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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