big (someone) up

big (someone) up
vb
British
to boost someone's confidence, praise someone. This fairly widespread slang phrase of the late 1990s probably orig-inated in black British usage.
► 'She were biggin' 'im up, goin'gwaarn, gwaarn!at 'im...' (Recorded, black teenage girl, London, March 1997)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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