glow up

present singular third person glows up · participle present glowing up · past glowed up · dialectal past glew up · participle past glowed up · dialectal participle past glown up

1. intransitiveslangTo undergo a glow-up.

   “Every single person in the 'Degrassi' cast somehow glowed up in the best way.”

   2018, @agerenesh, quoted in Express, 14 June 2018, 15 June 2018, page 32

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   We've all changed quite a bit since freshman year (thank goodness), but some people have particularly "glowed up."

   2017 May 11, Rebecca Noel, “Senior Glow Ups”, in Lecacy, The Kinkaid School, page 29

2. slangtransitiveTo cause to undergo a glow-up.

   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.

   2019 February 24, Alexis C. Madrigal, “No, You Don't Really Look Like That”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, page 18

plural glow ups

1. alternativeAlternative form of glow-up.