lever up

Financing a firm’s acquisition with a significant amount of debt. A firm typically issues term loans and junk bonds to drive IRRs for their private equity overlords (due to tax-deductibility of interest). Outside of its native LBO context, to ‘lever up’ refers to the act of getting rekt and fully sending it.
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