Usually means: Improve skills through review, practice.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word brush up:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. brush up: Merriam-Webster
  2. brush-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brush-up, brush-up, brush up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. brush up: Vocabulary.com
  5. brush-up: Wordnik
  6. brush-up, brush up: Wiktionary
  7. brush up: Dictionary.com
  8. brush up: Rhymezone
  9. brush up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. Brush up: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  11. brush up: FreeDictionary.org
  12. brush up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. brush-up, brush up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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

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

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brush up: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

(Note: See brush_ups as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (brush up)

verb:  To paint, or make clean or bright with a brush.
verb:  (idiomatic) To review; to improve an existing but rusty or underdeveloped skill.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To beat up, annoy or insult (someone).

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