Upping a shade

It is a phrase that is used to describe the process of darkening one's skin.

A synonym for this phrase is tanning.

Person 1: Wow...you are really white.
Person 2: Not for long! I'm working on upping a shade.
Person 1: Nice

by raisindisliker June 15, 2011

being shaded

Cruelty so subtle that people often didn't know they were even being ridiculed until everyone was laughing at them and they were forced to go along with the joke.

At the time, she was not aware that she was being shaded until he later made the comment to others and got everyone laughing at her.

by Sasha474 September 25, 2023

Kentucky Shade Tree

When a male individual neatly rests each testicle over each closed eye socket of a fellow individual, (male or female), hence shading the eyes like a Kentucky Shade Tree.

They were sleeping so I gave them a Kentucky Shade Tree to keep the sun out of their eyes.

by Kentuckmaduck May 3, 2021

shade bolding

The sex God anyone with this name will dick you down the best

He was shade Bolding all up in here

by Super shade November 6, 2017

Speed shades

If you like all time shreds and watching Nascar speed shades are necessary to protect your corneas from the UVs and elements.

Yo those speed shades are sick...way cooler than pit vipers.

by kurtisblow50 November 18, 2021

Window shades

Window shades

And you woke up and raise your window shades

by PabloEscobar123321 May 28, 2020

Shades

A hood gang from a high school that wears gray as their main color and commits crimes such as writing on the desks in class. This gang will only accept 50 people which makes them the 50 shades of grey.

Q)Yo man have you seen the Shades around? I wanna join them.

A) Nah dude they already got 50 members.

by chingnorris August 29, 2016