wife up

English

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wife up (third-person singular simple present wifes up, present participle wifing up, simple past and past participle wifed up)

1. (slang) (of a man) to marry a woman (generally an existing girlfriend); to make a woman one’s wife
   • 2008 “Chris Brown Wifing Up Rihanna?”
2. (slang) (of a man) to spend extensive or excessive time with one’s wife or girlfriend; to be under a woman’s thumb; to be whipped

   Brother’s wifed up – can’t go shoot pool or nothing.

Related terms

• shack up