to make a simple copy of something that you will later make or do properly, in order to test it or show people what it will be like
Her shriek of terror - because there had been a man lurking behind the mock-up Sepulchre.
I mocked up the toy with cardboard.
On one leg of the desk, an Apple Mac stood, its monitor showing a full page mock-up of some house details.
She watches as Patrick turns his head and looks with self-conscious interest at a mock-up of Tenochtitlan city, the Aztec capital.
The I-950 viewed the mock-up the computer part of her brain supplied with satisfaction.
mocks up
mocking up
mocked up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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