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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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Jul 13 Word of the Day
a phrase chiefly used in northern England.

it is a contracted form of "it'll be reet", where "reet" means "alright" or "OK".

living your life according to "be reet" is the only way to find happiness in life.
Geoff: "ZOMFG a just hopped off the buz n me 'ouse is burnin' down n me Deirdre's in there dyin!"
Jack: "Be reet."
by Tommmmmmmmmmmmm May 06, 2007
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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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