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sex

2 verb
     
Related topics: Biology, Animals
sex2 [transitive] technical
HBA to find out whether an animal is male or female

sex something ↔ up

phrasal verb
if someone sexes up a report or document, they make changes to it in order to make it say what they want it to say, even though it might not be completely true:
The Prime Minister denied that he had asked anyone to sex up the report.
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