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big upped

big upped is the simple past and past participle of big up.

Meaning of big up

Verb

big up (third-person singular simple present bigs up, present participle bigging up, simple past and past participle bigged up or (rare) big upped)

  1. (informal, transitive) To increase one's muscle mass.
    • She was bigged up—had a weight-lifter's rippling arms.2007, David Handler, The Bright Silver Star: A Berger and Mitry Mystery
  2. (informal) To become big.
    • Relatively simple multicellular forms had already existed for a hundred million years when the Cambrian began: the explosion had a long fuse, and during this earlier fizzling life experimented with various ways to big up.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 83
    Synonyms:
    enlarge
  3. (slang, transitive) To behave confidently and proudly.
  4. (slang, transitive) To proclaim or exaggerate the importance of; to promote.
    • I want to big up my bro on the mic.

See all 5 meanings of big up

Forms of big upped

alternative formbigged up

Questions about big upped

What is big upped the simple past and past participle of?
Big upped is the simple past and past participle of big up.

Words near big upped in the dictionary

  1. big trees
  2. big two
  3. big ugly dish
  4. big ugly dishes
  5. big up
  6. big upped
  7. big ups
  8. big wall
  9. big walls
  10. Big Wave Bay
  11. big wheel

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