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title: "stay up · GenZ Decoded"
description: "stay up: Stay strong and keep your head up; encouragement that you will be okay. Example: \"Rough week, but stay up, it gets better.\" Meaning and usage."
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# stay up

Gen Z[#lifestyle](https://genzdecoded.com/slang-for/lifestyle/)

**Meaning.** Stay strong and keep your head up; encouragement that you will be okay.

See it in a sentence

Rough week, but stay up, it gets better.

## How each generation says it

The closest equivalent for this idea in every generation.

- Gen Z · this one

    stay up

- Gen Alpha

    No word for this one yet.

- Millennial

    [keep your head up](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/keep-your-head-up/)

- Gen X

    [hang in there](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/hang-in-there/)

- Boomer

    [keep on truckin](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/keep-on-truckin/)

- Plain English

    stay strong and keep your head up

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## Related slang

- [spirit animal](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/spirit-animal/): Something or someone you strongly identify with; now widely seen as dated and culturally insensitive.
- [split](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/split/): To leave a place.
- [super](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/super/): An informal intensifier meaning very or extremely, often placed before an adjective.
- [swoop](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/swoop/): To pick someone up or give them a ride to where they need to go.

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