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Het up

adj, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Excited, agitated or frantic. colloquial

    "Try to keep your cool and not get het up."

Adjective
  1. 1
    worked up emotionally by anger or excitement wordnet
  2. 2
    made warm or hot (‘het’ is a dialectal variant of ‘heated’) wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of heat up dialectal, form-of, participle, past
  2. 2
    dialectal form of heat up dialectal, form-of

Etymology

Etymology 1

Irregular form of heat up. The adjective was originally a metaphorical use of the past participle het up (“heated up”), perhaps as a reference to agitation caused by fever or the churn of boiling water, but has since lexicalised as a fossil in standard English.

Etymology 2

Irregular form of heat up. The adjective was originally a metaphorical use of the past participle het up (“heated up”), perhaps as a reference to agitation caused by fever or the churn of boiling water, but has since lexicalised as a fossil in standard English.

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