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pay attention to what you're doing

See watch your back.
While walking down the street you go to turn down a blind alley. At the corner someone notices you.

"Hey smarten up!."

You look down the alley realizing what you were about to do and proceed down the street instead.
by th3m0nk October 16, 2011
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May 2 Word of the Day
when you've done something so cringe you can't stop replaying it in your head and it stops you from getting on with your every day life
Dan: bro why have you been staring into space for the last hour doing nothing?
Me: bro i have a chronic cringe from what happened earlier I can't concentrate
by finesseeeee March 01, 2019
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to smarten somebody up - to make look nicer or neat in appearance
then he smartened her up

he would smarten up her (ignore this line, it's just for the stupid input mask to stop saying "Example doesn't use the word smarten up."

purportedly, kidnapped child Natascha Kampusch's kidnapper would try to smarten her up and photograph her when he had beaten her up. (Don't like this example though it's the source - from Wikipedia. Better example anyone ?)
by pookie3456 November 03, 2006
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