informal. : to add weight, strength, or power to (something) Security around the city will be beefed up during the event. a politician looking to beef his image up.

What's another way to say beefed up?

In this page you can discover 8 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for beef up, like: increase, intensify, strengthen, augment, reinforce, beef, fortify and restrengthen.

Where did the term beef up come from?

beef up (v.)

"add strength," 1941, from college slang, from beef (n.) in slang sense of "muscle-power" (1851).