love up

English edit

love up (third-person singular simple present loves up, present participle loving up, simple past and past participle loved up)

(intransitive, informal) To demonstrate affection (on somebody).
- 2009, L. Lee Cowan, Except for All the Snakes, I Just Love It Out Here, →ISBN, page 122:
  Two or three times a day, I bundle up, put on my boots, go out the front door, sit in Greigg's glider and love up on Cork a bit — he's never far from the door.
- 2013, Stephanie Perry Moore, Wearing My Halo Tilted, →ISBN:
  And I had spent so much great time loving up on my kids.
(transitive, informal) To demonstrate affection for; treat in a loving way.
- 2010, Lavonne Ellis, David Crandall, Customer Love, page 57:
  Don't just help people, don't just love up your customers, do it in a way that is consistent with your desired position in your community.
(transitive, informal) To accept; to love wholeheartedly. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- 2013, Kathy Freston, The Lean, →ISBN, page 111:
  Look back at the list several times today, and then a few times a day in the following days, so that you are checking in regularly and loving up your shadow.
(transitive, informal) To make love to.
- 2009, Arlene Gorey, My Spanking Diary, page 28:
  I was just in my pajamas and slippers, and I blushed because she was looking at me. Then she whispered, "Take off your jammies, and love me up good, Arlene. Please, I want you to."