Entry · catalog no. 7308
glazing
/ /ˈɡleɪ.zɪŋ/ /GLAY-zing
verb · nationwide (internet) · 2020s
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1.
Praising someone so lavishly and so relentlessly that it curdles into embarrassment — laying the compliments on thick, like glaze. To overhype past the point of sincerity.
“He said dude was better than everybody who ever played — bro, stop glazing.”
Origin & Attribution
Black hip-hop and streaming culture. "Don't glaze him" — quit overhyping him — circulated in Black online and gaming spaces before Twitch streamers like Kai Cenat and Duke Dennis pushed it into everyday use around 2023, from where it spread to TikTok and YouTube.
early 2020s
"Don't glaze him" in Black gaming/hip-hop spaces
2023
Kai Cenat and Duke Dennis popularize it on Twitch
2024
Crosses to TikTok and the mainstream
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
Nationwide / diaspora
nationwide (internet) · 2020s
Spoken by
Black streamers, gamers, and hip-hop internet
$GLAZINThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Rising5 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
65/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2021
in the culture
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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Atlanta, GA
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Memphis, TN
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Citations & Sources
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Merriam-Webster Slang, "glaze" — dictionary · 2024
dictionary
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+ Cite a sourceTwitch usage by Kai Cenat / Duke Dennis — streaming · 2023
streaming
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