"geek someone's head up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: geeks someone's head up [present, singular, third-person], geeking someone's head up [participle, present], geeked someone's head up [participle, past], geeked someone's head up [past]
Etymology: Possibly related to geek (“make excited, make jumpy”, verb). Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} geek someone's head up (third-person singular simple present geeks someone's head up, present participle geeking someone's head up, simple past and past participle geeked someone's head up)
  1. (African-American) To increase someone's sense of their importance or skill; to make confident.
    Sense id: en-geek_someone's_head_up-en-verb-fCgpR2yy Categories (other): African-American English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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