tune-up
[toon-uhp, tyoon-]
- an adjustment, as of a motor, to improve working order or condition: The car needs a tune-up badly.
- Informal. a preparatory activity or warm-up, as before a contest or game: The track meet served as a tune-up for the Olympics.
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Origin of tune-up
First recorded in 1945–50; noun use of verb phrase tune up
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Examples from the Web for tune-up
Contemporary Examples
The health-care system is broken and in need of an overhaul, not a tune-up.
Historical Examples
I've caught up with my reading, and Mihul has put me through two of her tune-up commando courses.
LegacyJames H Schmitz
It had turned bleak now, the fuffs of the mountain-winds began to tune-up and fife, the gloom deepened toward night.
The Last MiracleM. P. Shiel