het up

alternative heat up · alternative heated up · alternative heaten up · alternative hetted up

1. dialectalparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of heat up

comparative more het up · superlative most het up · alternative heat up · alternative heated up · alternative heaten up · alternative hetted up

1. colloquialExcited, agitated or frantic.

   Try to keep your cool and not get het up.

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   "I reckon," he said, directing his remarks toward no one in particular, "that we've all been rather hasty in this matter, being het up as we were with the strain of what we been through an' so it seems to me, […]

   1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC

   ‘What ever happened ashore to get that cold old turtle so het up?’ he demanded.

   1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 62

   We must do an end run around these people, not make the mistake of thinking they are just “het up” or have wended a few yards into a wrong turn.

   2021, John H. McWhorter, chapter 6, in Woke Racism, New York: Forum, →ISBN

present singular third person hets up · participle present hetting up · participle past hetted up · past hetted up

1. dialectaldialectal form of heat up