dude up

English

Verb

dude up (third-person singular simple present dudes up, present participle duding up, simple past and past participle duded up)

1. (US, transitive, intransitive) To dress up; to dress in smart or special clothes.
   • 2014, Penelope Williamson, The Outsider, page 168:

     No real hand would ever dude himself up in Wild West clothes, like chaps with silver conchas and fifty-dollar boots so skintight the man's feet were starting to curl like a ram's horns.

   • 2015 October 8, Ben Brantley, “Review: ‘Fool for Love,’ a Kinship That Breaks Hearts and Knuckles”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     He’s up against the wall, duded up like the Marlboro Man, his hips cocked and his hat tilted low.