choose up meaning: definition, quotations

choose up

verb

Idiomatic To form (sides or teams), usually for a game, by having two individual players choose their teammates.

Idiomatic, Slang To choose (not necessarily fully consensually) to work as a prostitute for a particular pimp.

African-American Vernacular

Idiomatic To select; pick, especially, to make a final decision on a selection or option.

She prostituted for a couple of pimps before meeting MacD in Oakland. When Dakota got into his car, MacD said, "Bitch, my name is MacDaddy,” and added: "You've just gotten in a pimp's car, and you've chosen up.2010, Vanessa Place, The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality, and Law, page 153:
A couple bitches tried to play me They tried to have my babies I’m like “bitches, you crazy?” I’m tryna git my loot up […] Money or a broke bitch It ain’t hard for me to choose up2013, Tutty Apg, STUNTIN mixx, 0:39–0:48:

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They would chose up and leave me with the choice to decide. That was giving me power from the beginning. Submission! I didn't have to be first to make a move. It's always better to be chosen.2019, Maurice Holland, Street Poisoned: The Game Chose Me, page 166: