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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“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
"Richard III has a one-page write-up and if I tweet that picture people get really het up about it," she says.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2015
If we call on him like a delegation, he'll get het up, and be more disagreeable than if we went about this thing quietly.
From The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers by Howard L. (Howard Livingston) Hastings
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