fired up

comparative more fired up · superlative most fired up

1. colloquialVery emotional or excited about something (whether positive or negative).

   Watching the political commentators on cable news channels always gets him fired up.

   2 more examples

   Trilo, you seem to really be fired up about all this!!

   2007 March 16, Capcom Production Studio 4, quoting Maya, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for All, Europe: Capcom, →OCLC, Nintendo DS, scene: Part 3: Investigation, Circus Entrance, level/area: Turnabout Big Top

   But although AFI (The Blood Album) doesn’t reinvent the wheel, it doesn’t need to: The record illustrates that the members of AFI are deeply committed to forward motion, and remain as fired up now as they were 25 years ago.

   2017 January 20, Annie Zaleski, “AFI sounds refreshed and rejuvenated on its 10th album, AFI (The Blood Album)”, in The Onion AV Club

2. colloquialRunning or switched on; especially in the moments after just starting.

   Now that all the ship's boilers were fired up, the voyage was well and truly underway.

1. colloquialparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of fire up