trick out

British  

verb

1. (tr, adverb) to dress up; deck out

   tricked out in frilly dresses

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trick out Idioms  

1. Ornament or adorn, especially ostentatiously or garishly, as in She was all tricked out in beads and fringe and what-have-you. This term uses trick in the sense of “dress up” or “decorate,” a usage dating from about 1500. [Early 1700s]

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Example Sentences

Tranter, who identifies as gender-nonconforming and uses they/them pronouns, co-wrote 30 original tunes that trick out the era’s signature styles with modern production touches and clever lyrical asides.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2023

Jason Scott Carter, a former police officer in Coral Springs, Florida, used $21,788 in bogus pandemic payments to trick out his 1969 Ford Mustang.

From Washington Times • Jan. 4, 2023

A big fan of White, Hirano trotted the trick out at White’s “retirement party.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 11, 2022

Warned away from the material world, we work in simulated office space, drink at simulated happy hours and trick out simulated islands in Animal Crossing.

From New York Times • May 19, 2020

Had McNaughton used some trick out of a spy novel, like laying a strand of hair over the binder—a strand that would remain in place only so long as the binder was not touched?

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin