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touch-up

UK/ˈtʌt͡ʃˌʌp/US/ˈtʌt͡ʃˌʌp/
nounB2leans spoken

Other forms: touch-ups

A touch-up is a small repair to make-up during the day. Do a touch-up at lunch, a quick touch-up.

It fixes what has moved rather than starting again. A touch-up is why so many people carry one product rather than the whole bag.

Definitions of touch-up

  1. 1nountouch-upA small repair to make-up during the day.B2

    “A touch-up before the photographs took about a minute.”

touch-up is a repair.

Where it comes from

Deverbal from touch up.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Beauty & Cosmetics

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