yuck up

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English

Verb

yuck up (third-person singular simple present yucks up, present participle yucking up, simple past and past participle yucked up)

  1. To spoil; to make yucky.
    • 1978, Stores: The Bulletin of the N.R.D.G.A. - Volume 60, page 29:
      The market, she notes, has been over-saturated with dresses "yucked up with a lot of trim.
    • 2003, Jeremiah F. Healy, Off-season and Other Stories, page 81:
      Paul had a Mazda RX-7, the sharp older model before they yucked it up and made it look American.
    • 2004, Studies in American Humor - Issues 11-14, page 64:
      While his fellow students yucked the poem up (needless to say, they were women), he went into high dudgeon and stormed out of the seminar room, muttering something about politics in the classroom under his breath.

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