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geek someone's head up

geek someone's head up verb: to increase someone's sense of their importance or skill; to make confident.

Verb

geek someone's head up (third-person singular simple present geeks someone's head up, present participle geeking someone's head up, simple past and past participle geeked someone's head up)

  1. (African-American) To increase someone's sense of their importance or skill; to make confident.
    • y`all are ridiculous, a bunch of hataz, ain`t nobody ihating on that brawd SHAY so don`t geek her head up talkin` about she got groupies LOL^([sic])2009 April 19, @missesoxclusive [username], Twitter, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2022
    • "This is what we been waiting for you is the man Spider". Which I always knew I just love hearing everybody else say it because it geek's my head up^([sic]) […]2010, Ridiko, Hood Trials, →ISBN, page 271

Forms of geek someone's head up

third-person singular presentgeeks someone's head up
present participlegeeking someone's head up
past participlegeeked someone's head up
pastgeeked someone's head up

Origin of geek someone's head up

Possibly related to geek (“make excited, make jumpy”, verb).

Questions about geek someone's head up

What does geek someone's head up mean?
Geek someone's head up means to increase someone's sense of their importance or skill; to make confident.
What part of speech is geek someone's head up?
Geek someone's head up is a verb.
What is the past tense of geek someone's head up?
The past tense of geek someone's head up is geeked someone's head up.

Words near geek someone's head up in the dictionary

  1. geek
  2. geek chic
  3. geek code
  4. geek codes
  5. geek out
  6. geek someone's head up
  7. geek-out
  8. geek-outs
  9. geekasm
  10. geekasms
  11. geekazoid

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