love up

English

Verb

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

1. (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.

2. (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.

3. (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.

4. (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."

Synonyms

• (make love to): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Related terms

• loved up, loved-up