slang, streamer
glazing
Meaning
- Showering someone with excessive, often insincere praise.
- (noun) The act of doing this, or the person who does it (a glazer).
“Stop glazing him, he just made one good play.”
Where it came from
The term has roots in African American Vernacular English and hip-hop, where telling someone to stop glazing meant to stop overhyping a person. It spread on Twitch and TikTok around 2021 through streamers like Kai Cenat and Duke Dennis, who used it constantly in stream chat.