flex up

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flex up (third-person singular simple present flexes up, present participle flexing up, simple past and past participle flexed up)

1. (transitive) To increase a worker's work hours during on-call availability periods, as opposed to scheduled shifts.
2. (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To look good; to be dressed up so as to express one's wealth; to be blinged out; to look hard.