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OED:
big something up British • informal
Praise or recommend something highly:
the record’s been on the streets a while now, but it’s certainly still worth bigging up
There are posters all over the place bigging it up, but it is so nondescript from the outside that it's easy to mistake for a regular hedge.
United bigged him up on tour and then dropped him like a stone on his return to Manchester.
I don't want to big it up too much, as then the whole experience might fail to meet my expectations.
Collins:
(transitive, adverb) (slang) to make important, prominent, or famous
We'll do our best to big you up.
Jamaica's vote was in return for a match that was sure to 'big up' the Reggae Boyz' profile.
Today it isn't only Bob, Bono and cokehead rockers who perform on an international stage in a bid to big up their moral credentials.
Wiktionary:
big up (third-person singular simple present bigs up, present participle bigging up, simple past and past participle bigged up or, rarely, big upped)
1. (UK, slang, idiomatic) To increase one's muscle mass through exercise.
He works out every day to big up himself.
2. (Jamaica, slang, idiomatic) To proclaim or exaggerate the importance of.
I want to big up my bro on the mic.
They're trying to big themselves up to be more than they are.
In a keynote speech, attended by over 2,000 people, Steve Jobs spent the first 10 minutes bigging up the move to Intel chips. — Apple announces new mobile phone, BBC Online, 9 January 2007
Synonyms
(increase one's muscle mass): build up, bulk up, pump iron, work out
(exaggerate the importance of): overemphasize, overplay, play up
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OED:
big something up British • informal
Praise or recommend something highly:
the record’s been on the streets a while now, but it’s certainly still worth bigging up
There are posters all over the place bigging it up, but it is so nondescript from the outside that it's easy to mistake for a regular hedge.
United bigged him up on tour and then dropped him like a stone on his return to Manchester.
I don't want to big it up too much, as then the whole experience might fail to meet my expectations.
Collins:
(transitive, adverb) (slang) to make important, prominent, or famous
We'll do our best to big you up.
Jamaica's vote was in return for a match that was sure to 'big up' the Reggae Boyz' profile.
Today it isn't only Bob, Bono and cokehead rockers who perform on an international stage in a bid to big up their moral credentials.
Wiktionary:
big up (third-person singular simple present bigs up, present participle bigging up, simple past and past participle bigged up or, rarely, big upped)
1. (UK, slang, idiomatic) To increase one's muscle mass through exercise.
He works out every day to big up himself.
2. (Jamaica, slang, idiomatic) To proclaim or exaggerate the importance of.
I want to big up my bro on the mic.
They're trying to big themselves up to be more than they are.
In a keynote speech, attended by over 2,000 people, Steve Jobs spent the first 10 minutes bigging up the move to Intel chips. — Apple announces new mobile phone, BBC Online, 9 January 2007
Synonyms
(increase one's muscle mass): build up, bulk up, pump iron, work out
(exaggerate the importance of): overemphasize, overplay, play up
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