Meanings
present singular third person wifes up · participle present wifing up · participle past wifed up · past wifed up
- slang(of a man) to marry a woman (generally an existing girlfriend); to make a woman one’s wife
2008 “Chris Brown Wifing Up Rihanna?”
- slang(of a man) to spend extensive or excessive time with one’s wife or girlfriend; to be under a woman’s thumb; to be whipped
Brother’s wifed up – can’t go shoot pool or nothing.
Cite this entry
wife up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wife%20up
“wife up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wife%20up. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wife up,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wife%20up.
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