pumped (up) adj.
1. (US) excited, full of something, usu. oneself.
![]() | Current Sl. VI 8: Pumped, adj. Excited. | |
![]() | (con. 1920s) Legs 90: The thought of running a pool room by myself three hours a day, seven days a week, had me so pumped up I hardly slept. | |
![]() | Way Past Cool 265: Crack was intense, but cruelly quick. On top, where the boy had been a minute ago, you were pumped to the max. | |
![]() | Fatty 119: Penrith were pumped up for the biggest night in the club’s history. | |
![]() | Hurricane Punch 4: Can’t tell how glad I am it’s hurricane season again. I’m so pumped! | |
![]() | Long & Faraway Gone [ebook] She was so pumped. She was going to get a job. | |
![]() | Eve. Standard (London) 24 June 72/3: The striker remains a huge influence on the squad and has already got his team pumped up for the game. |
2. (US campus) drunk.
![]() | Campus Sl. Fall 3: intoxicated [...] Also pumped up. |