bronze up

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

An allusion to bronzing, or tanning one's skin.

Verb[edit]

bronze up (third-person singular simple present bronzes up, present participle bronzing up, simple past and past participle bronzed up)

  1. (intransitive, Australia, prison slang) To cover oneself in one's own excrement, chiefly to disrupt custodial processes or as an attention-seeking act in prison.
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