talk up

verb

talked up; talking up; talks up

transitive verb

: to discuss favorably : advocate, promote
talk up the new product

intransitive verb

: to speak up plainly or directly

Examples of talk up in a Sentence

the director and actors are making the obligatory rounds of the late-night shows to talk up their new movie feel free to talk up if you have any objections
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Documents distributed by Qatari foreign agents working for Venable, for instance, talk up what Qatar views as the positive effects of investments made by its sovereign wealth fund while downplaying the Gulf nation’s links to terrorist organizations. Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 25 May 2025 And by talking up the return of factory jobs to America, Mr. Trump directly addresses what four decades of free-trade policies and globalization made worse: the hollowing out of America’s middle class. Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2025 McPherson rose to prominence during the golden age of P.R., when Ivy Lee was talking up the Rockefellers and the Democratic Party and Edward Bernays was selling everything from Dixie cups to the First World War. Casey Cep, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025 The studio has been talked up by departing CEO Alex Mahon in recent years, who has placed digital front and center of Channel 4’s strategy. Max Goldbart, Deadline, 12 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for talk up

Word History

First Known Use

1660, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

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The first known use of talk up was in 1660

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“Talk up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/talk%20up. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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