Green’s Dictionary of Slang

geed-up adj.2

[? gee (up) v.]
(US)

1. (US, also gheed-up) drunk [? link to gee n.5 ].

[US]Flynn’s 18 Mar. 56/2: She fell from the doorway, either not knowing there were two steps down into the bathroom or else forgetting it on account of being so geed up [OED].
[US]Goldin et al. DAUL 77/2: Geed-up. Intoxicated.

2. (also G’d up) excited; in a positive mood.

Sentee Men 118: Last night’s sign [...] still keeps me geed up some [HDAS].
[Aus]P. Doyle (con. late 1950s) Amaze Your Friends (2019) 18: Suitably geed up, I turned my attention to monetary matters.
[UK]K. Sampson Powder 92: The group seemed quite geed-up by it too.
[US]R. Cea No Lights, No Sirens 36: I was so G’d up about this first chase, I leaped out of the car without placing it in park.

3. intoxicated by drugs [? link to gee n.6 ].

[US]B. Dai Opium Addiction in Chicago 199: Geed up. Filled with drugs.
[US]D. Maurer ‘Lang. of the Und. Narcotic Addict’ Pt 2 in Lang. Und. (1981).
[US]O. Ferguson ‘Vocab. for Lakes [etc.]’ in AS XIX:2 104: There is some allusion in sailors’ language to the use of drugs [...] gheed up [...] and goofed up are cognate and self-explanatory.
[US]Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
[US]Lannoy & Masterson ‘Teen-age Hophead Jargon’ in AS XXVII:1 25: GEED UP, phr. Under the influence of drugs [LAPD].
[US]J.E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo and Lore.
[US]E.E. Landy Underground Dict. (1972).

4. (also g’d up) modified and thus increased in value.

[US]College Sl. Research Project (Cal. State Poly. Uni., Pomona) 🌐 G’d up (verb phrase) Modified and made more valuable.