DONE UP meaning: Decorated or dressed very elaborately - OneLook

Usually means: Decorated or dressed very elaborately.

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done up: Merriam-Webster
done up: Collins English Dictionary
done up: Vocabulary.com
done-up, done up: Wordnik
done up: Wiktionary
Done up: Dictionary.com
done up: Rhymezone
DONE UP: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
Done Up: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
done up: FreeDictionary.org
Done up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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done up: Legal dictionary

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done up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

done up, done up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
done up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (done up)

▸ adjective: (colloquial, obsolete) Worn-out, exhausted.
▸ adjective: (colloquial, obsolete, US) Ruined by excess, especially gambling.

Similar:

wrapped, sewn up, beat-up, tired, dog-eared, raddled, worn out, worn-out, tuckered out, dumfungled, more...

Opposite:

undone, unfastened, unbuttoned, unzipped, loose

Types:

gussied up, dolled up, fancy, dressed up, more...

Phrases:

done up like a dog's dinner, done up like a dogs dinner, done up like a kipper, elegantly done up, more...

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Similar:

wrapped, sewn up, beat-up, tired, dog-eared, raddled, worn out, worn-out, tuckered out, dumfungled, more...

Opposite:

undone, unfastened, unbuttoned, unzipped, loose

Types:

gussied up, dolled up, fancy, dressed up, more...

Phrases:

done up like a dog's dinner, done up like a dogs dinner, done up like a kipper, elegantly done up, more...

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