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Definition of het up adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

het up

adjective
 
/ˌhet ˈʌp/
 
/ˌhet ˈʌp/
 [not before noun] (informal)
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  1. 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.
    Topics Feelingsc2
    Word Originmid 19th cent.: from dialect het ‘heated, hot’, surviving in Scots and northern English dialect.
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