goth up
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goth up (third-person singular simple present goths up, present participle gothing up, simple past and past participle gothed up)
- (transitive, intransitive, informal, humorous) To dress or decorate in the style of goth subculture.
- 2002, Paul Hodkinson, Goth: Identity, Style and Subculture:
- Toward the evening, we return to our bed and breakfast in order to get 'gothed up', which entails making our appearance as impressive as possible...
- 2004, Nancy Kilpatrick, The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined:
- The goth gardeners have suggestions for gothing up a garden, whether it's in a yard, in a container, in window boxes, on a rooftop...
- 2004, Mark Jacobson, Rae Jacobson, 12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time:
- On Saturday nights we'd all get Gothed up and trek down to Houston and Avenue A.
- 2007, Rachel Caine, The Dead Girls' Dance:
- He's still Gothing up, dying his brown hair into black spikes, and he had on more eyeliner than I did.
- 2007, James Burr, Ugly Stories for Beautiful People, page 45:
- There were a lot of young girls, in their early-twenties she guessed, many of them either Gothed up in thick black mascara and black lip stick, others looking like stereotypical Beat Girls in black rollnecks and jeans.