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HET UP
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Worked up emotionally by anger or excitement
Example:
he was suddenly het up about racing cars
Classified under:
Similar:
emotional (of more than usual emotion)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Made warm or hot ('het' is a dialectal variant of 'heated')
Example:
he was all het up and sweaty
Synonyms:
heated; heated up; het; het up
Classified under:
Similar:
hot (used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning)
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