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flex up

flex up verb: to increase a worker's work hours during on-call availability periods, as opposed to scheduled shifts.

Verb

flex up (third-person singular simple present flexes up, present participle flexing up, simple past and past participle flexed up)

  1. (transitive) To increase a worker's work hours during on-call availability periods, as opposed to scheduled shifts.
  2. (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To look good; to be dressed up so as to express one's wealth; to be blinged out; to look hard.

Forms of flex up

third-person singular presentflexes up
present participleflexing up
past participleflexed up
pastflexed up

Questions about flex up

What does flex up mean?
Flex up means to increase a worker's work hours during on-call availability periods, as opposed to scheduled shifts.
What part of speech is flex up?
Flex up is a verb.
What is the past tense of flex up?
The past tense of flex up is flexed up.

Words near flex up in the dictionary

  1. flex off
  2. flex offs
  3. flex on
  4. flex one's muscles
  5. flex out
  6. flex up
  7. flex-cuff
  8. flex-cuffed
  9. flex-cuffing
  10. flex-cuffs
  11. flex-fuel

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