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bigs up

bigs up is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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.

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What is bigs up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bigs up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of big up.

Words near bigs up in the dictionary

  1. bigrassmannian
  2. bigravity
  3. Bigrigg
  4. bigroot
  5. bigs
  6. bigs up
  7. Bigsby
  8. Bigsbys
  9. bigscale
  10. bigscales
  11. bigshot

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