snazz up
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.10 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To improve appearance or appeal by increasing stylishness or functionality, or by adding other attractive features.
American usage; Informal; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "He worked with me from the very beginning to tighten and brighten my writing, snazz up my layouts."
- "And wouldn't it snazz up the entrance to have a stained-glass window replace the clear one over the front door?"
- "The Great White Way has in recent years increasingly banked on resurrections of Golden Oldie musicals and dramas from earlier decades, snazzed up with cinematic stars as box-office bait."
Etymology
Usage
- American usage
- Informal
- Transitive verb