(transitive, chiefly US, informal) To improve appearance or appeal by increasing stylishness or functionality, or by adding other attractive features.

(New Zealand, slang, transitive) To tell (someone) off. / (New Zealand, slang, transitive) To provoke or hurry (someone) into doing something. / (New Zealand, slang, transitive) To make (someone) angry.

(New Zealand, slang) A telling off. / (New Zealand, slang) A provocation.

(New Zealand) Angry or upset.

past participle of rark up

Alternative spelling of yuk it up

(figuratively) To stop functioning; to come to a halt. / (of muscles) To stiffen or become tight and difficult to move. / (of a machine) To stop working suddenly, and become impossible to start again.

(informal) A crude improvisation or bodged effort.

(transitive, idiomatic) To kill (a person) by hanging, especially to lynch. / (intransitive, idiomatic, obsolete) To die by hanging.

simple past tense and past participle of pony up