het up
Americanadjective
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indignant; irate; upset.
She was really het up about the new city tax.
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enthusiastic.
John is suddenly het up about racing cars.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of het up
1920–25; het, archaic or dial. past participle of heat + up
Example Sentences
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The actress said the following day she "went to the set and, because I was squatting on the floor, all het up, I farted in front of him. I was mortified".
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026
“What’s the good of rushin’? No use in gettin’ all het up an’ sweaty.
From Slate • Nov. 25, 2018
BTW, we are not as het up about Halloween as Americans, it's rather more a young kids annual candy gathering event.
From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2016
There’s no need to get quite so het up about it.
From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2015
“Me and Smoke and Beelzebub’s middlin’ comf’table in the kitchen,—and it saves wood; but I’ll start the front-room stove and things’ll get het up in no time.”
From Lost Farm Camp by Knibbs, Harry Herbert
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