flex up

verb

To increase a worker's work hours during on-call availability periods, as opposed to scheduled shifts.

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Meanings

verbflex up (third-person singular simple present flexes up, present participle flexing up, simple past and past participle flexed up)

present singular third person flexes up · participle present flexing up · participle past flexed up · past flexed up

  1. transitiveTo increase a worker's work hours during on-call availability periods, as opposed to scheduled shifts.
  2. intransitiveslangAfrican-American VernacularTo look good; to be dressed up so as to express one's wealth; to be blinged out; to look hard.
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APA

flex up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flex%20up

MLA

“flex up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flex%20up. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flex up,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flex%20up.

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