hyped-up
adjective
intensively or excessively stimulated or exaggerated.
hyped-up
American
[hahypt-uhp]
/ ˈhaɪptˈʌp /
adjective
Informal.
hyped up
British
adjective
Etymology
Origin of hyped-up
First recorded in 1945–50
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The terms of the agreement might seem purposely vague—a case of two hyped-up AI stocks teaming up on a task that no one really understands.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
Funny, in the week leading up to the hyped-up Harbaugh Bowl — the third iteration of the NFL’s only brother-to-brother matchup of head coaches — the Ravens coach had to heed his own advice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024
Things went from bad to worse for the New York Jets and the Dallas Cowboys, with the Chicago Bears another hyped-up side struggling to keep their season alive.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2024
Ka Mate was the chosen haka in 2007 in Cardiff, where France stood just a meter away, arm-in-arm, eyeballing hard and electrifying a hyped-up World Cup quarterfinal.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
Princeton scrawls on something that looks like a hyped-up mouse pad and it shows up on Namitha’s screen.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
The player hyped up as golf’s next big thing for years had fully arrived.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
"We do pieces of fielding to each song and he pumps the music up to try and get us all hyped up," vice-captain Charlie Dean said.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Although not much has been seen of the Roadster since its 2017 introduction, Tesla executives have repeatedly hyped up the car, which Musk has said is a collaboration with SpaceX, one of his other companies.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 17, 2026
Hegseth’s bravado has also been caricatured on “Saturday Night Live,” which opened two weeks in a row with a satirical portrayal of him as angry, dimwitted and hyped up on the violence of war.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2026
Nothing gets Momma more hyped up than hosting book club.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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