tricking (out)

verb

present participle of trick (out)
as in dressing up

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tricking (out)
  1. dressing up
  2. doing up
  3. fancying up
  4. trapping
  5. decorating
  6. draping
  7. adorning
  8. enriching
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  • Some edtech has developed its own flavor of that problem by dressing up excessive gamification as a motivation system.
    — Richard Carranza, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • Today, dressing up as an athlete, the same as in any public-facing career, is an unavoidable profile-raising effort.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
Definition of dressing up
Verb
  • What in the world are those overgrown basketballs doing up there?
    — Rui Bo, The Conversation, 18 May 2026
  • Wednesday’s practice started with some of the players doing up-downs after forgetting equipment.
    — Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
Definition of doing up
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  • The Toronto International Film Festival was also a font of high-end timepieces, with celebrities fancying up their wrists for the red carpet.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2025
Definition of fancying up
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  • Heat domes are sprawling areas of strong high pressure that act like a lid on the atmosphere, trapping heat underneath and squelching clouds and precipitation with their sinking air, resulting in thousands of excess deaths in Europe alone.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
  • On Wednesday, July 22, Abdoulaye Dieng died from asphyxiation after trapping his head between a mirror and an iron bar at the Luz do Brás daycare center in São Paulo, Brazilian outlets O Globo and G1 reported.
    — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 25 July 2026
Definition of trapping
Verb
  • There’s something new — and very blue — decorating the downtown San Jose skyline.
    — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 25 July 2026
  • Consider decorating your bookshelf with fewer, larger pieces.
    — Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 23 July 2026
Definition of decorating
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  • From Madame Grès and Gianni Versace to today’s couture runways, designers have long looked to Grecian legacy — including draping, sculptural silhouettes, metallic finishes and goddess glamour — as the ultimate inspiration.
    — Alex Badia, Footwear News, 21 July 2026
  • He was arrested on charges of invoking the national flag in his performances, including in a photo published by state run newspaper Granma which depicted the artist brushing his teeth while draping the flag around his waist like a bath towel.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 21 July 2026
Definition of draping
Verb
  • Black shirt, black shorts, thin sheen of sweat adorning his expressive forehead.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2026
  • Aside from the art adorning the bakeware and towels, Yeh’s lifestyle and personality are also infused into the assortment’s physical design.
    — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 July 2026
Definition of adorning
Verb
  • Most of all, Culp engineered a cultural reboot that’s enriching all three freestanding players to this day.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 July 2026
  • Gas seeps out of the magma and diffuses into the atmosphere, in theory enriching it in oxygen, silicon hydride and silicon monoxide, while going the other way the magma absorbs ammonia, methane and water vapor from the atmosphere.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 July 2026
Definition of enriching
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