beef up

phrasal verb

beefed up; beefing up; beefs up

informal

: to add weight, strength, or power to (something)

Security around the city will be beefed up during the event.

a politician looking to beef his image up

Examples of beef up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

One of the factors that makes the idea of beefing up the brackets so attractive to the NCAA—besides the bonus $$$—is the practice of awarding automatic bids to the teams that win their conference tournaments. —Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 29 May 2025

Netanyahu ordered security to be beefed up at Israeli diplomatic missions around the world and for Israeli representatives, according to the statement. —Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 22 May 2025

Morgans would like to see the recommendation beefed up so more men get screened for prostate cancer and Black men and men with a family history, who are more vulnerable get screened earlier. —Ronnie Cohen, NPR, 21 May 2025

Mayor Brandon Johnson is scrambling to beef up his Black bona fides. —Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2025

Rhymes for beef up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup