cranked up

adjective

Agitated; worked up.

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of crank up
adjectivecranked up (comparative more cranked up, superlative most cranked up)

comparative more cranked up · superlative most cranked up

  1. Agitated; worked up.

    Birdy especially got cranked up about home burial.

    2013, Seedy Buckberry, A Windfall Homestead
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    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 16

    She 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 63

    If I was cranked up on caffeine, it was harder to relax and get aroused.

    2014, Jessica Sims, Wanted: Wild Thing

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