revved (up) adj.
1. excited, tensed up, emotionally intense.
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![]() | Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1969) 218: Gut got everybody revved up. | |
![]() | 🎵 They’re all revved up and ready to go. | ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’|
![]() | Real Thing 146: Norton was still feeling a bit revved up from the few beers and the champagne. | |
![]() | Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 297: [T]here is a capacity crowd on hand and all the hoops are revved up and the atmosphere is electric. | |
![]() | Indep. Rev. 28 June 10: They possess a harsh, exotic sexiness that makes them irresistible to anyone whose hormones are all revved up. | |
![]() | Rubdown [ebook] Want to do a [strip] show? They’re all revved up. | |
![]() | Scrublands [ebook] ‘My people are very revved up’. |
2. (US drugs) under the influence of (meth)amphetamine.
![]() | Knockemstiff 148: She’d fire up some ice [and] stay revved up for two or three nights. | ‘Holler’ in