glow up
See also: glow-up
English
Verb
glow up (third-person singular simple present glows up, present participle glowing up, simple past glowed up or glew up, past participle glowed up or glown up)
- (slang) To undergo a glow-up.
- 2017, Rebecca Noel, "Senior Glow Ups", Lecacy (The Kinkaid School), 11 May 2017, page 29:
- We've all changed quite a bit since freshman year (thank goodness), but some people have particularly "glowed up."
- 2018, @agerenesh, quoted in Express, 14 June 2018, 15 June 2018, page 32:
- “Every single person in the 'Degrassi' cast somehow glowed up in the best way.”
- 2019, Alexis C. Madrigal, "No, You Don't Really Look Like That", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 24 February 2019, page 18:
- Speaking as a longtime iPhone user, I find it undeniable that Portrait mode — a marquee technology in a recent edition of the most popular phones in the world — has been glowed up.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:glow up.
- 2017, Rebecca Noel, "Senior Glow Ups", Lecacy (The Kinkaid School), 11 May 2017, page 29: