muss up

English

Verb

muss up (third-person singular simple present musses up, present participle mussing up, simple past and past participle mussed up)

  1. (obsolete, slang) To treat roughly.
    • 1916 March 11, “[advertisement] You Men Who Have Pipes”, in Saturday Evening Post‎:
      Tuxedo is a good-hearted, gentle, quiet, soft-voiced tobacco […] no "fighting spirit" in it anywhere to muss up your tongue.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see muss,‎ up.

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