amped

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of amp

comparative more amped · superlative most amped

1. Activated, as with electric power.

   Two guitars were amped and miked, while a third space was empty and waiting for Kellan's guitar.

   2013, S.C. Stephens, Reckless

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   All four motors should be amped to check the loading on the motors before new motors are installed. The amp checks might reveal that a smaller size motor could be use

   1990, Mary Jo Winer, Strategies for Reducing Natural Gas, Electric and Oil Costs, page 324

2. colloquialExcited or full of energy, especially to excess.

   If I listen to fast music before I go out in a heat, it gets me too amped out and then I can't concentrate on my surfing.

   1991, Surfing, volume 27, number 1

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   But I didn't care. I was twenty-two years old. I was invincible. “Keep it going,” Sparky said at one point. He was too amped to sleep, so he turned on the radio and cranked the volume.

   2004, Steve Parish, Joe Layden, Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead

   But whether the guy was fiddling too intently with the XM radio tuner or was simply too amped on NoDoz and cheap cigarettes, speeding along to a New Year's Eve party, he keeps driving.

   2010, Ryan G. Van Cleave, Unplugged: My Journey into the Dark World of Video Game Addiction

   Hawk ate it, and ate it again and again, and failed four times before regulation time ran out. But Hawk kept going; the crowd was amped to see history made, and Tony was amped to make it

   2011, Ben Marcus, The Skateboard: The Good, the Rad, and the Gnarly, page 233

   Synonyms: amped up, psyched up