tun up

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

Literally, "turned up."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʌnˌʌp/
• Hyphenation: tun‧up

Adjective

tun up

1. cool, da bomb, hot, great, off the chain, off the hook, wonderful

   My yute, yu haffi deh a di party. It a guh tun up.

   Dude, you have to be at the party. It's going to be da bomb.

   • 2019, Anthony Turner, “Tony Kelly’s Buy Out riddim sampled on new pop single”, in The Jamaica Gleaner‎^[1] (in English):

     “Right now if you are in a party and the party is dead, all you have to do is drop the Buy Out riddim and the whole place tun up” he said. […] ”