Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rizz up

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.81 in modern English

Syllables: riz-z up
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To seduce a love interest; to attract someone using rizz.

Slang

Example Sentences

"Twitch streamer and YouTube personality Kai Cenat, who popularized the term, broke it all down on a recent episode of No Jumper. "Rizz is when you're talking to a girl, and at first, shit is not going your way. It's looking bad for you, until you spit game and you're rizzing them up to where shit starts to go your way," he explained. "You're so slick with your words and what you're saying, to where the girl is like, 'OK, yeah, who is this?!' After shit goes your way, you're like, 'Yeah, I rizzed her up. I've got mad rizz.'""
"In one of De Tolla's videos, he says that Dunne "rizzed" Madden while convincing him to attend LSU. In another video, he jokes that Madden "rizzed up" Dunne and the 10-year-old stole the gymnastics star from her boyfriend, the "drip king." "Drip" refers to swagger and style."

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

rizzes up (present, singular) rizzing up (participle, present) rizzed up (participle, past) rizzed up (past)

Synonyms

rizz

Questions

What does rizz up mean?: To seduce a love interest; to attract someone using rizz.

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