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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(slang) A major and impressive transformation in appearance, talent, power, etc..
As the country's foremost fountain fashioner in the early 20th century, this Hoosier gave the gardens of wealthy Americans their glow-ups.
I recognised this in college, before he got his teeth done, before he got the tan and the #confidence and the style, back when he was obsessed with Eminem and had terrible bleached hair. I bagged him as my bestie nice and early, before his uber glow-up.
Let us now marvel at a lady who achieved one of the most impressive glow ups in the thousand-plus-years history of the Byzantine Empire: Empress Theodora.
Use glow-up when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Glow-up means (slang) A major and impressive transformation in appearance, talent, power, etc..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include glow-down.
As the country's foremost fountain fashioner in the early 20th century, this Hoosier gave the gardens of wealthy Americans their glow-ups.
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