(transitive, idiomatic) To fasten (a piece of clothing, etc.); to tighten (a nut etc.).
I can't do up my shirt. The button is missing.
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(transitive, idiomatic, colloquial) To redecorate (a room, etc.); to make improvements to (a home or domestic property).
Help me do up this zipper.
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(transitive, idiomatic, informal) To execute a task or performance.
You hold it in place while I do up the nut.
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The aesthetic vocabulary of how people dress now — quiet luxury, coquette, mob wife, coastal grandmother, Y2K core, and every "-core" that came after.
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