noun🔥 Gen-Z slang

glow down

getting worse in looks or style over time

What it means

The opposite of a glow up, when someone's looks, style, or overall vibe gets noticeably worse over time. It can also be a verb, as in to glow down, and is often used to comment on a celebrity or person who peaked and then declined.

Examples

  • He had a serious glow down after high school.
  • That haircut is a glow down, I'm so sorry.
  • She glowed up and then immediately glowed down, brutal.
  • Quarantine was one big glow down for all of us.

Where it comes from

A direct inversion of "glow up," coined as the meme counterpart on Twitter and TikTok in the late 2010s, riding the same transformation-content trend.

Related slang

#glow up#washed#mid

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