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Meaning of "sex up" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SEX UP

sex up play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEX UP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sex up is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

WHAT DOES SEX UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sexed up

Sexed up refers to making something more sexually appealing. Since 2003 it has been used in the sense of making something more attractive than it really is by selective presentation; a modern update to the phrase "hyped up". Variants include "sex it up". The implication is that no actual lying is taking place, but that spin is being placed on certain parts of the message.

Definition of sex up in the English dictionary

The definition of sex up in the dictionary is to make more interesting or exciting.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SEX UP

sex kitten
sex life
sex linkage
sex maniac
sex manual
sex object
sex offender
sex organ
sex partner
sex scene
sex selection
sex shop
sex show
sex symbol
sex therapist
sex therapy
sex tourism
sex toy
sex urge
sex worker

WORDS THAT END LIKE SEX UP

back up
be made up
bollix up
clean up
come up
dress up
end up
fix up
follow up
get up
give up
keep up
look up
set up
show up
sign up
stand up
start up
take up
thumbs up

Synonyms and antonyms of sex up in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sex up» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SEX UP

Find out the translation of sex up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sex up from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sex up» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

做爱了
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sexo hasta
570 millions of speakers

English

sex up
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सेक्स ऊपर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الجنس يصل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

секс до
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sex -se
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লিঙ্গ আপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sexe jusqu´à
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Seks up
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sex up
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

セックスまで
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

섹스 까지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jinis munggah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

quan hệ tình dục lên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

செக்ஸ் ஆசை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लिंग अप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Seks yapmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sesso up
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

seks w górę
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

секс до
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sex în sus
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σεξ μέχρι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

seks op
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kön upp
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sex opp
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sex up

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SEX UP»

The term «sex up» is quite widely used and occupies the 46.586 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SEX UP» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sex up» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sex up» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sex up

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEX UP»

Discover the use of sex up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sex up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
175, 1991 sex down vert to make a thing less appealing UK Derived as an antonym for SEX UP. • Dossier 'sexed down', Campbell tells MPs. — The Guardian, 26th June 2003 Sexed Up adjective sexually aroused UK, 1942 • [S]ix men straight ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
2
Sex, Gay Men and AIDS
Other people seem to wrap sex up in all sorts of other guises you know. They don 't seem to enjoy it so much. I mean it can be better, it is better, you'll put up with a lot more with somebody you're really romantically involved with, even if the sex ...
Peter M. Davies, Ford C. I. Hickson, Peter Weatherburn, 2013
3
Preventive Female Sex Factors Against the Development of ...
... which covers over 14% of the United States population. Table 5. Host-related major risk factors for development of HCC in cases with chronic HBV or HCV infection Male sex Up to 3-fold increased risk Older age at diagnosis (>50 or 55 ...
Ichiro Shimizu, 2012
4
10 Rules to Sex Up a Blind Date
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Heidi Rice, 2014
5
Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, ...
In Forbidden Fruit, nearly two-thirds of all 18-year-olds reported having already had vaginal sex, up from 57 percent of 17-year-olds, 33 percent of 15-year-olds, and just under 10 percent of 13-year-olds.6 Much media attention continues to ...
Mark Regnerus, Jeremy Uecker, 2010
6
Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai
He really wants me to bring this [sex] up myself;he won't bring it up by himself. This guy is a Communist Party cadre, so he thinks that way. That's fine with me.I want to keep leading him along and let him give me more and more.”She bragged ...
James Farrer, 2002
7
Intercultural Communication and Diplomacy
Can we claim because of the evidence surveyed here that Campbell's input into the dossier was spin-laden? Was Gilligan right in accusing him of having sexed it up? What does the term to “sex up” actually mean? Lord Hutton described it as ...
Hannah Slavik, 2004
8
Zolar's Starmates: Astrological Secrets of Love and Romance
... speed sex up as you may want to do during various periods of each year when Mercury-Pluto and Mercury-Neptune pressures build up in your chart. Take things easy where sex is concerned, let things build up to their crescendo in a nice, ...
Zolar, 1988
9
Inside the Secondary Classroom (RLE Edu O)
Carol Buswell (1981) has argued that in one comprehensive in the north of England the pupils 'could be classified by sex up to twenty times in a day — day after day.' This classification takes many forms. All our six schools had separate ...
Sara Delamont, Maurice Galton, 2014
10
The Development of Sex Differences
Both sexes increased the amount of identification with the other sex up to age 14. By then girls were equally identified with both parents, and boys more with the mother. Mother was evaluated equally by children of both sexes; father more ...
Eleanor E. Maccoby, 1966

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