tooled up

British

adjective

slang equipped with a weapon, esp a gun

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Ukraine's factories have tooled up to make equipment to help keep the sappers safer.

From Reuters • Aug. 3, 2023

“We had already tooled up the lid,” he said, absently pushing the spinner’s button and watching it whir.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2022

But if the government is now tooled up to save every email and phone call, what untold biographical riches is it storing up?

From The Guardian • Jul. 3, 2013

And once that product is designed, it’s tested with focus groups, manufacturing is tooled up, and 100,000 or a million products are made and brought to market.

From Forbes • Aug. 8, 2012

Don't I show up with a toothache and con old Tully into a day off at the dentist's to have the bridge-work tooled up.

From Bunker Bean by Wilson, Harry Leon

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