Glaze
To excessively praise or hype someone up to an embarrassing, fawning degree.
Definitions
Used to call out kissing up or sucking up to someone for clout or approval.
To shower someone with over-the-top praise, often to the point of looking like a desperate fanboy. In anime spaces it's what you do when you won't stop gushing about your favorite character or studio.
Self-aware version where you admit you're overhyping something you love.
Glaze In A Sentence
Origin & Usage
Gen Z slang that grew out of African American Vernacular English and hip-hop culture, where to 'glaze' is to coat someone in praise like glaze on a doughnut. It spread widely through gaming, anime, and sports discourse on TikTok and Twitch around 2023.
People Also Ask
What does glaze mean in slang?
It means to excessively praise or hype someone up, often in a fawning, over-the-top way that looks like sucking up.
What does glazing mean on TikTok?
On TikTok it means gushing over someone or something way too much, like overhyping a creator or a character. It's usually called out as cringe.
Where did the slang glaze come from?
It comes from AAVE and hip-hop, picturing praise as glaze coating something, and spread through gaming and anime communities online.
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