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)

1. (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.

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