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)

1. (slang, intransitive) To undergo a glow-up.
   • 2017 May 11, Rebecca Noel, “Senior Glow Ups”, in Lecacy, The Kinkaid School, 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.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:glow up.
2. (slang, transitive) To cause to undergo a glow-up.
   • 2019 February 24, Alexis C. Madrigal, “No, You Don't Really Look Like That”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 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.

Noun

glow up (plural glow ups)

1. Alternative form of glow-up.