geek someone's head up

Possibly related to geek (“make excited, make jumpy”, verb).

geek someone's head up (third-person singular simple present geeks someone's head up, present participle geeking someone's head up, simple past and past participle geeked someone's head up)

1. (African-American) To increase someone's sense of their importance or skill; to make confident.
   • 2009 April 19, @missesoxclusive [username], Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2022-09-13:

     y`all are ridiculous, a bunch of hataz, ain`t nobody ihating on that brawd SHAY so don`t geek her head up talkin` about she got groupies LOL^[sic]

   • 2010, Ridiko, Hood Trials, →ISBN, page 271:

     "This is what we been waiting for you is the man Spider". Which I always knew I just love hearing everybody else say it because it geek's my head up^[sic] […]

   • 2019 February, Aigne Berry, Mikaya Williams, “What does it take to be a perfect valentine?”, in Empehi News‎, page 06:

     “He makes me feel special by geeking my head up and gives me more confidence in myself, […] ”