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

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

Most notably, the company has beefed up automatic activity tracking. — Victoria Song, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2026

Showrunner Steve Holland further explained the decision to beef up the presence of the other characters. — Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for beef up

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