Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. lucky, secure, well-off.

1937		J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 57: It’s as easy as kiss me arm and we’d be made then for life.
1992		P. Bracken Light of Other Days n.p.: She did vast washings, cooked repasts of many courses [...] We thought we were made up for life [BS].
1999		K. Sampson Powder 7: Helmet was just made up to be there.

2. delighted, pleased.

1970		G. Cain Blueschild Baby 87: ‘I’d a been made if I were you, stead of being out here like I am now’.
1980		J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 108: They said, ‘Bang, you’re going back in the ID permanently.’ Made up, I was.
1998		K. Sampson Awaydays 82: A raggedy mob of junior Squad and various Woodchurch heads all made up to see us.
2007		Indep. 1 June 20: If he was a Scouser he would have been well ‘made up’ over so many spondulicks.
2021		Breen & Conlon Hitmen 233: ‘I bumped into Mark [...] He’s made for a bit of work’.
2022		A. Parks May God Forgive 131: ‘Deke bought him two Commando comics he didn’t have. Jumbo was made up’.