het up
adjective/ˌhet ˈʌp/
/ˌhet ˈʌp/
[not before noun] (informal)- het up (about/over something) anxious, excited or slightly angry
- What are you getting so het up about?
- He was all het up about the extra cost.
- She got rather het up with some of the journalists.
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from dialect het ‘heated, hot’, surviving in Scots and northern English dialect.Definitions on the go
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