25 January 2017

het up

[het]

adjective, Informal.

1. indignant; irate; upset:
She was really het up about the new city tax.
2. enthusiastic:
John is suddenly het up about racing cars.

Origin of het up

1920-1925; het, archaic or dial. past participle of heat + up

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Examples from the Web for het up

Contemporary Examples

Elsewhere in the post, Silver explains, as he has many times, why no one should get too het up over one single poll.
Silver on Gallup’s Galloping Numbers
Michael Tomasky
October 18, 2012

Historical Examples

It was by standin’ out all het up where she had hitched me after she’d rid’ me to one of the witch conventions.
The Skipper and the Skipped
Holman Day

Why would your grandfather get all het up if he heard about it?
David Lannarck, Midget
George S. Harney

Anagram

he put

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