Definition of beef up

beef up    

verb - transitive

• to enhance.

  "Obama to beef up Mexico border policy"

  Last edited on May 07 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'beef':
100% all-beef thermometer	Definitions include: a penis.
beef	Definitions include: a problem or grudge with someone.
beef cake	Definitions include: a muscly man
beef curtain	Definitions include: large outer labia; "large vaginal lip".
beefed out	Definitions include: wrong, lame, not fair, stupid; "messed up"; "fucked up".
beef flap	Definitions include: large outer labia; "large vaginal lip".
beef hammer	Definitions include: a penis.
have a beef	Definitions include: to have a a problem or grudge with someone.
have beef	Definitions include: to have problems with another person.
hot beef injection	Definitions include: sexual intercourse involving at least one male.
ride the beef	Definitions include: suffer the consequences for a wrongdoing; "get (one's) comeuppance".
roast beef	Definitions include: women above the age of consent.
roast beef curtains	Definitions include: the labia (i.e. "lips" of the female genitalia.)
whistle beef	Definitions include: to vomit.
Other terms relating to 'up':
6 up	Definitions include: a warning that one or more law enforcement officers are near.
ace up (one's) sleeve	Definitions include: a secret advantage.
act up	Definitions include: to misbehave.
AFU	Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up."
all done up	Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc.
all up in	Definitions include: doing something emphatically.
amped up	Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant.
amp up	Definitions include: to increase.
ante up	Definitions include: to contribute one's share.
arse up	Definitions include: to mess up.
as f*cked up as a football bat	Definitions include: 1. To be highly intoxicated on drugs and/or alcohol
*ss up	Definitions include: to make something like ass.
ate up	Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird".
ate up with stupid	Definitions include: stupid.
ate up with the dumb *ss	Definitions include: strange / stupid.
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