overamp v.
1. (drugs) to overdose on cocaine or amphetamine.
![]() | Narcotics and Narcotic Addiction (3rd edn). | |
![]() | We are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against 93: When I get hold of a burn artist, he’s going to have pain [...] I make ’em take their own stuff, overamp (over dose) till they scream. | |
![]() | Underground Dict. (1972). | |
![]() | Golden Orange (1991) 53: He woulda over-amped anyways. Overdosed, I mean. | |
![]() | Another Day in Paradise 187: Fuck, kid, your eyes are gonna come out of your head. You overamped? |
2. (US) in fig. use, to hype up, to overdo; usu. as overamped adj., overwrought, over-excited.
![]() | New Age Blues 137: [...] preaching in his inimitable overamped style. | |
![]() | Bad Blood 76: He overamped on cars, he overamped on drugs, and when Marlene showed up he overamped on her. | |
![]() | Forbes CLXIII 270: It’s an overamped culture’s halfhearted injunction to take a five-minute pit stop while steaming hell-for-leather through the world. | |
![]() | Chicago 163: The G-Man, as it is often called, avoids the overamped Cubs mania of the rest of the strip by playing classical music when the Cubs play at home. | |
![]() | Brazil 127: Overamped footballers singing their team’s anthem. |