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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So why has the Chanel version gotten people so het up?
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
“What’s the good of rushin’? No use in gettin’ all het up an’ sweaty.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2018
We could have used this approach last week, for instance, when writer Sarah Miller got the internet all het up by declaring, on Jezebel, that she hated maxi dresses.
From The Guardian ● May 14, 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
Jest about this time, Whitfield Minkley, our Tirzah Ann’s husband, got jest as much carried away and enthused over some other Islands, though he had more to show for his het up state of mind.
From Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Holley, Marietta
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