(informal, intransitive) To don fancy clothing; to dress up particularly in flattering or specially altered garments.
You bet she'll gussy up for the party.
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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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(informal, transitive) To make fancy or attractive, as by artificial or contrived means.
Not trusting filmgoers to catch the drift, Ms. Coppola underscores the women’s attempts to gussy up with snippets of arch dialogue.
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