makeover

[meyk-oh-ver] Origin

make·o·ver

[meyk-oh-ver]
noun
1.
remodeling; renovation; restoration: The old house needs a complete makeover.
2.
a thorough course of beauty and cosmetic treatments: Assistants spent four hours on the actress's makeover in preparation for the awards ceremony.

Origin:
noun use of verb phrase make over
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Makeover is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Word Origin & History

makeover
from phrase make over in sense "to refashion" (1690s); from make + over.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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