Usually means: Improve appearance with minor adjustments.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word touch up:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. touch up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. touch-up, touch up: Merriam-Webster
  3. touch-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. touch up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. touch up: Vocabulary.com
  6. touch-up, touch up: Wordnik
  7. touch-up, touch up: Wiktionary
  8. touch-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. touch-up, touch up: Dictionary.com
  10. Touch Up (album), Touch Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. touch up: Rhymezone
  12. Touch Up: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  13. touch up: FreeDictionary.org
  14. touch up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. touch up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. touch-up: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. touch up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. touch up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. touch up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. touch up: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. touch up, touch up, touch up, touch up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. touch up: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Touch Up: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (touch up)

verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To make slight corrections or adjustments to; to fill in or perfect.
verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To fondle or to grope someone, usually in an inappropriate way.

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