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Trick out
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- 1 To dress or decorate in an especially fancy, elaborate, or excessive manner. informal, transitive
"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 whether it was in human nature to feel otherwise than I did, without possessing an angelic disposition, to which I never pretended; and I fairly own that I did shed not one-fiftieth part so many tears over Tom’s grave as I did over his dirty pantaloons, when forced to put them on."
- 2 put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive wordnet
- 3 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. informal, transitive
"His friends were particularly impressed with the way he tricked out his Ruckus."
Etymology
Perhaps from dialectal English trig out (“to dress smartly”), perhaps an alteration of rig out. More at trig.
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