tart up

1. 1.

   decorate in a cheap and flashy way

   “the small-town bar was all tarted up”

   Broaderdecorate
2. 2.

   dress up in a cheap and provocative way

   Broaderoverdress

Questions about tart up

What does tart up mean?

tart up means "decorate in a cheap and flashy way". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is tart up a common word?

tart 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.