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Definition of step up (one's) game

step up (one's) game

verb

  • to step up (improve) one's game (performance).
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

    Citation from "Begin the Begin", Covert Affairs (TV), Season 2 Episode 1 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

    Citation from "Bill And Gary's Excellent Adventure", Alphas (TV), Season 1 Episode 6 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

    Last edited on Feb 22 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Feb 22 2013.

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Other terms relating to 'game':

Definitions include: a good performance.
Definitions include: a particular important sporting event.
Definitions include: "board game".
Definitions include: boss game.
Definitions include: to deliver a good performance ("A-game").
Definitions include: British expression meaning that the speaker doesn't want to do something.
Definitions include: Too bad; there is nothing one can do; shortened - Charge it.
Definitions include: a swindle, scam.
Definitions include: the ability to attract members of the opposite sex.
Definitions include: something that radically changes a situation.
Definitions include: interjection of encouragement.
Definitions include: of no more value or no longer cool.
Definitions include: Pot and anything needed to smoke it.
Definitions include: a plan.
Definitions include: the pursuit of money.

Other terms relating to 'step':

Definitions include: To have sex with a fellow addict in a 12-step program. This is AA lingo.
Definitions include: diarrhea.
Definitions include: suffering a bout of diarrhea so chronic that you only manage a scream and 2 steps before it starts to run down your leg.
Definitions include: the act of racing to a bathroom while not defecating (specifically: diarrhea) in one's pants.
Definitions include: diarrhea.
Definitions include: To act like you want to engage in a fight, but then back down once the other person fights back.
Definitions include: diarrhea.
Definitions include: stuff happens just don't cause oh the situation.
Definitions include: to "step up" to a fight.
Definitions include: literally, to step away.
Definitions include: to dilute illegal drugs.
Definitions include: to flatulate.
Definitions include: to flatulate.
Definitions include: to drive quickly.
Definitions include: to cheat on one's significant other.

Other terms relating to 'up':

Definitions include: a warning that one or more law enforcement officers are near.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: to misbehave.
Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up."
Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc.
Definitions include: doing something emphatically.
Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant.
Definitions include: to increase.
Definitions include: to contribute one's share.
Definitions include: to mess up.
Definitions include: 1. To be highly intoxicated on drugs and/or alcohol
Definitions include: to make something like ass.
Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird".
Definitions include: stupid.
Definitions include: strange / stupid.

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