redd (up or out)

verb

ˈred How to pronounce redd (up or out) (audio)
Definition of redd (up or out)next
chiefly dialect
as in to trim
to make neat it's time to redd up the garage and get rid of a lot of the junk we've accumulated

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  1. trim
  2. organize
  3. arrange
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  • Though consumers are advised to eat smaller fish or to trim away belly fat and dark meat to remove contaminants, blue catfish is increasingly popular table fare.
    — Tovar Cerulli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Edmunds recommends avoiding the base SE Standard Range trim because of its EPA range estimate of just 220 miles.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of trim
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  • Eire serves on the advisory board for the Disclosure Foundation, a nonprofit that organized the event and is dedicated to transparency around unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and aliens.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2026
  • On February 9, 1934, the French Communist Party organized a march to the Place de la République as a counter-protest to fascist riots, an action that helped lay the groundwork for the alliance of left-wing parties known as the Popular Front.
    — Maurice Samuels, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of organize
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  • The service is seeking industry proposals for software that could help arrange the complex systems packed inside its next-generation SSN(X) attack submarine.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026
  • His eight-song set, which I was blessed to experience firsthand, was sparsely arranged—the accompaniment amounted to a set of brass bells, a bass guitar, and Cox’s trusty SP-404—yet transfixing all the same.
    — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of arrange
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“Redd (up or out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redd%20%28up%20or%20out%29. Accessed 31 Oct. 2026.

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