Talk:choose up

RFV discussion: June 2022–January 2023

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choose up

Rfv-sense: "(idiomatic, transitive) To select; pick, especially, to make a decision on a selection or option"

I don't find this in OneLook dictionaries. OED? In any event we need cites. DCDuring (talk) 17:25, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

It seems to be an AAVE expression. @Leasnam added the usex She chose up, are you mad?; the phrase "she chose up" turns up in various rap lyrics, and could probably be cited just from that. This, that and the other (talk) 08:45, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

However, that's intransitive, which disagrees with the entry. Equinox ◑ 19:15, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Not anymore. Leasnam (talk) 20:45, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Song lyrics, like (other?) poetry are often not a good source of unambiguous attestion of meaning. DCDuring (talk) 20:42, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

There aren't a whole lot of things choose up can mean outside of "make a final decision, etc.". So what is ambiguous about it? Leasnam (talk) 22:21, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

I'd like to see unambiguous, durably archived evidence in the entry per WT:ATTEST. The usage example is utterly worthless as an illustration of meaning. DCDuring (talk) 04:26, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

I had more of a look. The sense here is a bit elusive, but certainly narrower than currently defined. The highest-rated Urban Dictionary entry doesn't actually define the term, simply saying "Often used when refering to a pimp or hoe".

There are some uses in self-published books in GBooks:

• [1] "I thought […] I would've at least helped her, but not even a week later, she chose up with another pimp."
• [2] A girl is apparently into her boyfriend's friend (I'm not sure whether they had sex); the friend says "Don't get mad at me cuz she chose up".
• [3] "Field was definitely a playa […] He chose up on me a while back and I almost said yes until I went to the restroom that night and saw him bumping and grinding on some freak near the Men's room. That was the end of that."

Perhaps the gloss is "(intransitive) to pick out an individual one intends to have sex with"? This, that and the other (talk) 13:33, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

I'm not sure it means exactly all that, per se, but it seems to certainly be used in that context. Leasnam (talk) 13:52, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

@DCDuring, Leasnam: I have added a more elucidative example I have stumbled upon and close this as RFV-passed, given also that this thread includes references to various other relevant quotes. I don’t know what you be trying to achieve here else. Fay Freak (talk) 18:59, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

We are always trying to have entries that show actual usage, especially for definitions that are not common. If folks are too lazy to format citations and put them in the entry, then they are making us more like Urban Dictionary and less like the OED. DCDuring (talk) 19:07, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

@DCDuring, yeah, I'm still waiting on my paycheck. Leasnam (talk) 20:06, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

We should hold out for twice what UD offers. DCDuring (talk) 23:57, 5 January 2023 (UTC)