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

Tkachuk immediately beefs up the team’s top six and feels like a particularly perfect fit on a top line with Aleksander Barkov and Sam Reinhart. — Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 16 July 2026

Atlanta police have beefed up security to separate their fans. — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2026

At the time, the Fed turned to large-scale asset purchases to beef up its portfolio in an effort to inject liquidity in the financial system and encourage lending when interest rates were already near zero. — Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 14 July 2026

The funding increase would go almost entirely toward beefing up personal protection for the justices, though the court has also asked for funding to support more building officers, an off-site security office and new cybersecurity hires. — Elise Spenner, ABC News, 14 July 2026

Rhymes for beef up

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