trick out
verb
Forms tricks out tricking out tricked out
- verb (informal, transitive, of a person or thing) To dress or decorate in an especially fancy, elaborate, or excessive manner.
- verb (transitive, informal) Of a motor vehicle, etc.: to mod or customize an object, typically for the purposes of personalization and enhancing performance capabilities such as the ability to perform stunts. “His friends were particularly impressed with the way he tricked out his Ruckus.”
Synonyms
adorn embellish festoon customize modify overdress dress up fig out fig up deck up gussy up fancy up trick up deck out prink attire get up rig out tog up tog out
Etymology
Perhaps from dialectal English trig out (“to dress smartly”), perhaps an alteration of rig out. More at trig.
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “trick out”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details