tool up

English

Verb

tool up (third-person singular simple present tools up, present participle tooling up, simple past and past participle tooled up)

1. (informal, transitive) To furnish with equipment.
2. (informal, intransitive) To arm oneself with a weapon, especially a gun.
   • 2023 November 24, Rory Carroll, “‘Government is not listening’: anger over immigration spills into riot on Dublin’s streets”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     “Everyone bally [balaclava]^[sic] up, tool up,” said one man. “Let’s show the fucking media that we’re not a fucking pushover, that no more fucking foreigners are allowed into this poxy country.”