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rizz up

rizz up verb: to seduce a love interest; to attract someone using rizz.

Verb

rizz up (third-person singular simple present rizzes up, present participle rizzing up, simple past and past participle rizzed up)

  1. (slang) To seduce a love interest; to attract someone using rizz.
    • Twitch streamer and YouTube personality Kai Cenat, who popularized the term, broke it all down on a recent episode of No Jumper. "Rizz is when you're talking to a girl, and at first, shit is not going your way. It's looking bad for you, until you spit game and you're rizzing them up to where shit...2022 December 15, Eric Skelton, “Rizz, Explained”, in Complex, New York, N.Y.: Complex Networks, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2023
    • In one of De Tolla's videos, he says that Dunne "rizzed" Madden while convincing him to attend LSU. In another video, he jokes that Madden "rizzed up" Dunne and the 10-year-old stole the gymnastics star from her boyfriend, the "drip king." "Drip" refers to swagger and style.2023 June 8, Kalhan Rosenblatt, “Who is Baby Gronk? Did Livvy 'rizz' him up? What does any of this really mean?”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2023
    Synonyms:
    rizz

Synonyms of rizz up

Forms of rizz up

third-person singular presentrizzes up
present participlerizzing up
past participlerizzed up
pastrizzed up

Questions about rizz up

What does rizz up mean?
Rizz up means to seduce a love interest; to attract someone using rizz.
What part of speech is rizz up?
Rizz up is a verb.
What is the past tense of rizz up?
The past tense of rizz up is rizzed up.

Words near rizz up in the dictionary

  1. rizottos
  2. Rizvi
  3. Rizvis
  4. Rizwan
  5. rizz
  6. rizz up
  7. Rizza
  8. rizzar
  9. rizzared
  10. rizzaring
  11. rizzars

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