sex up

1. 1.

   give erotic character to or make more interesting

   “eroticize the ads”

   Synonymseroticize

   Broaderchange

Questions about sex up

What does sex up mean?

sex up means "give erotic character to or make more interesting".

What is another word for sex up?

Close synonyms include eroticize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sex up a common word?

sex up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.