beef up

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

To draw larger audiences, networks like CNN, Fox News, and MS Now are beefing up their election night coverage, promising more data, dynamic commentary, and engaging visualization than before. — Oscar Hartzog, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2026

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has promised to beef up Japan's cybersecurity measures. — ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026

With sports the only programming format that truly lures the sizable and simultaneous crowds advertisers covet, Netflix may want to beef up its expertise. — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 27 Oct. 2026

But OpenAI also beefed up its own agents this year by launching its Codex coding app in February and ChatGPT Work agent in July for accomplishing multistep tasks like writing a brief or analysis. — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for beef up

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