Thesaurus results for PRIMP

primp

verb

as in to dress

to try to make yourself more attractive by making small changes to your clothes, hair, etc., especially while looking at yourself in a mirror The teenagers spent hours primping in front of the mirror on the day of the prom.

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Recent Examples of primp Murphy is obsessed with their maximalism: the richest of the rich, the most snatched of all waists, the plucked and primped and plumped and pressed. —

Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025 Hundreds of them were on hand this week to primp and pamper more than 2,500 cows competing at what is widely considered to be the Westminster Dog Show of the cattle world. —

Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025 Handlers at the 2024 National Dog Show Presented by Purina spoke exclusively with PEOPLE about getting different breeds ready for the big event and the amount of primping required. —

Marina Watts, People.com, 28 Nov. 2024 Photographed by Clémence Polès The next couple of hours felt like a rom-com montage—a bunch of girls playing, primping, and posing for pictures. —

Jessie Heyman, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for primp

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Alex Garcia’s cheeseburger tartare is a mound of rib-eye sliced by hand into dice-sized squares of meat, dressed in a vinaigrette that zips with pickle brine, soy, mustard and even a squirt or two of ketchup.

— Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
Wear these y with your go-to white T-shirt and jeans, dress them up with slacks and a blazer, or out to drinks in your favorite party dress.

— Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2026