tun up

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Jamaican Creole

Etymology

Literally, "turned up."

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʌnˌʌp/
  • Hyphenation: tun‧up

Adjective

tun up

  1. cool, da bomb, hot, great, off the chain, off the hook, wonderful
    My yute, yu haffi deh a di party. It a guh tun up.
    Dude, you have to be at the party. It's going to be da bomb.
    • 2019, Anthony Turner, “Tony Kelly’s Buy Out riddim sampled on new pop single”, in The Jamaica Gleaner (in English):
      “Right now if you are in a party and the party is dead, all you have to do is drop the Buy Out riddim and the whole place tun up” he said.