Word.ws English Dictionary

word up

word up interjection: i approve; I agree.

Interjection

(US, originally African-American Vernacular)

  1. (US) I approve; I agree.
  2. (US) Hello.
  3. (US) What's up?; what's happening?; what's the word?
  4. (US) Listen up; pay attention!.

Verb

word up (third-person singular simple present words up, present participle wording up, simple past and past participle worded up)

  1. (US) To pray, remain spiritually oriented and/or behave congruently with Christian doctrine.
  2. (US, informal) To inform (someone) of up-to-date information on a topic.
    • You have to word up Jeremy on the party.

Synonyms of word up

Forms of word up

third-person singular presentwords up
present participlewording up
past participleworded up
pastworded up

Questions about word up

What does word up mean?
Word up means i approve; I agree.
What part of speech is word up?
Word up can be an interjection or a verb.

Words near word up in the dictionary

  1. word square
  2. word squares
  3. word time
  4. word to conjure with
  5. word to the wise
  6. word up
  7. word vector
  8. word vectors
  9. word vomit
  10. word wrap
  11. word wrapped

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: word up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-au-word up.ogg.

Cite this entry: “word up.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/word_up. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.