[glits] 
Slang.| 1. | ostentatious glitter or sophistication: a cocktail lounge noted for its glitz. |
| 2. | to add a showy sophistication to (often fol. by up): They glitzed up the lobby with a couple of fountains and a birdcage. |
| glitz (glĭts) n. Ostentatious showiness; flashiness: "a garish barrage of show-biz glitz" (Peter G. Davis). tr.v. glitz·ed, glitz·ing, glitz·es To invest with an ostentatiously showy quality: "have started to glitz up their shows with filmed backdrops" (Bill Barol). [Back-formation from glitzy, flashy, showy, probably from German glitzern, to glitter, from Middle High German glitzen, to shine, from Old High German glīzan; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.] glitz'i·ness n., glitz'y adj. |
glitz
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