rizz up

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rizz up (third-person singular simple present rizzes up, present participle rizzing up, simple past and past participle rizzed up)

1. (slang) To seduce a (usually female) love interest; to attract someone using rizz.

   Synonym: (uncommon) rizz

   • 2022 December 15, Eric Skelton, “Rizz, Explained”, in Complex‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: Complex Networks, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-20:

     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.'"

   • 2023 June 8, Kalhan Rosenblatt, “Who is Baby Gronk? Did Livvy 'rizz' him up? What does any of this really mean?”, in NBC News‎^[2], archived from the original on 2023-06-22:

     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.