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- Japanese · calque ofレベルアップ
- English todaylevel up
From level + up. The video game sense is a calque of Japanese レベルアップ (reberu appu) using the SOV word order.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
level up
Today it means: To raise to the same level or status; to improve so as to make as good as others. Full definition →
Japanese レベルアップ