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het up

het up · more het up · most het up

Excited, agitated or franticExcited, agitated or frantic.

» Now, don't get all het up. I was going to tell you when you came home.

Значення

значень: 1

(розмовне)Excited, agitated or frantic.
Try to keep your cool and not get het up.

Ще визначення

worked up emotionally by anger or excitement
made warm or hot (‘het’ is a dialectal variant of ‘heated’)

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речень: 1

Now, don't get all het up. I was going to tell you when you came home.
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Irregular form of heat up. The adjective was originally a metaphorical use of the past par

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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