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rizzing up

rizzing up is the present participle and gerund of rizz up.

Meaning of rizz up

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
    Synonyms:
    rizz

Questions about rizzing up

What is rizzing up the present participle and gerund of?
Rizzing up is the present participle and gerund of rizz up.

Words near rizzing up in the dictionary

  1. rizzful
  2. Rizzi
  3. rizzier
  4. rizziest
  5. rizzing
  6. rizzing up
  7. Rizzis
  8. rizzle
  9. rizzled
  10. rizzler
  11. rizzlers

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