"blow someone's skirt up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: blows someone's skirt up [present, singular, third-person], blowing someone's skirt up [participle, present], blew someone's skirt up [past], blown someone's skirt up [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|blow<,,blew,blown> someone's skirt up}} blow someone's skirt up (third-person singular simple present blows someone's skirt up, present participle blowing someone's skirt up, simple past blew someone's skirt up, past participle blown someone's skirt up)
  1. (slang, chiefly in the negative) To appeal to or be pleasing to someone; to be the sort of thing that one enjoys. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-blow_someone's_skirt_up-en-verb-CuiX7jVC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English negative polarity items, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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