Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of crank up
comparative more cranked up · superlative most cranked up
- Agitated; worked up.
Birdy especially got cranked up about home burial.
2013, Seedy Buckberry, A Windfall Homestead3 more examples
Now, I mean this turkey was cranked up good. He had been gobbling at the slightest sound of my hen calls earlier.
1984, Ken Warner, Gun Digest, 1985, page 16She thought I'd had too much to drink, which, of course, I had. But now I felt cranked up and wide awake.
2009, Nellis Boyer, Hancock House, page 63If I was cranked up on caffeine, it was harder to relax and get aroused.
2014, Jessica Sims, Wanted: Wild Thing
Synonyms & antonyms
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cranked up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cranked%20up
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