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

The new, stricter rule comes a week after the Federal Transit Administration set a Monday deadline for the MTA to beef up worker protection. — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 24 Sep. 2026

In the meantime, farmers do their best to beef up security – hyperaware that all someone needs to do is cut off a branch from their trees for it to be smuggled away, draining their profits from some distant orchard in another country. — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026

Chipotle is beefing up its board, in a bid to reassure investors and quell concerns about potential activist scrutiny. — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026

As the company continues to see sales take a hit in North America, JD Sports Fashion is beefing up its leadership team in the region. — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 15 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for beef up

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