suit up

English

Verb

suit up (third-person singular simple present suits up, present participle suiting up, simple past and past participle suited up)

1. (intransitive) To don a suit, such as a spacesuit, a formal suit, a hazmat suit, or (archetypally or figuratively) a suit of armour.
   • 1983, Gregory Benford, Against Infinity:

     Each day for three weeks they suited up and went out to the module and fed it.

2. (transitive) To clothe, to put clothes on (someone).

Quotations

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Translations

put on — see put on

See also

• bundle up
• lawyer up
• layer up
• mask up