hopped (up) adj.
1. (US drugs) under the influence of drugs; thus hop oneself up v., to take drugs.
‘Prison Dict.’ in AS VIII:3 28/1: HOPPED UP. In a stupor from drugs. | ||
Bits of New York Life 20 Feb. [synd. col.] With ether, bad booze and veronal, Broadway is getting all hopped up. | ||
Keys to Crookdom 86: When ‘hopped up’ on coke, even an honest person plans all kind of wild acts. | ||
(con. 1918) Red Pants 164: It’s Charley, and he’s all hopped up. | ||
Third Degree (1931) 227: Many of the newer generation of ‘coked’ or ‘hopped up’ gunmen will shoot and kill a merchant because they don’t like the look of his face. | ||
Double-Action Gang June 🌐 Smoke Keenan, hopped up and reckless, had staged the reprisal. | ‘Revolt of the Damned’ in||
Neon Wilderness (1986) 250: He didn’t have time to argue with hopped-up dames. | ||
Jungle Kids (1967) 34: I thought Turk was just hopped and talking through the top of his skull. | ‘Vicious Circle’ in||
Imabelle 78: ‘You think she’s drunk?’ [...] ‘Either that or hopped’. | ||
Concrete Kimono 61: I realized he had been hopped-up, probably on P.H.s. | ||
Rage in Harlem (1969) 77: [as 1957]. | ||
Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 6: Hopping himself up with good old amphetamine [...] then hooking down more alcohol. | ||
Thumb Tripping (1971) 130: Those guys are all hopped up on pills and shit. | ||
Nam (1982) 163: The plan was to feed us, get us all hopped up, and have a big old time. | ||
(con. 1949) Big Blowdown (1999) 211: She’s all the way hopped. | ||
Mondo Desperado 14: A mother who’s a hopped-up swimsuit model in some squalid pit of sexual depravity! | ||
(con. 1964–8) Cold Six Thousand 123: A bunch of hopped-up niggers looking for their next fix. | ||
(con. 1973) Johnny Porno 69: Twelve hours ago, hopped up on a speedball he’d injected under his tongue, Billy had killed a man. | ||
Blacktop Wasteland 173: These boys didn’t look like hopped-up meth heads. | ||
Seven Demons 116: [A]s if you were hopped-up in appalling Jackness like fucked-up on a toxic [...] methamphetamine Jack serum’. |
2. (US) in fig. use, excited, impatient, obsessed with.
TAD Lex. (1993) 46: They’re not gettin’ out an extra — we gotta new editor an’ the boys are kinda hopped up. | in Zwilling||
Fighting Blood 122: The more I think about it, the more I get hopped up on the idea. | ||
Low Company 23: He had almost made it when that hopped-up gambler had to bust in as though it were a fire. | ||
Really the Blues 59: He was all hopped up, cracking wise, acting big buying drinks for the house. | ||
From Here to Eternity (1998) 122: He worked savagely, taking out his hatred on the paper [...] throwing himself headlong at it like a hopped-up Jap attacking a machinegun. | ||
Felony Tank (1962) 73: I’m sorry, man. I’m all hopped up. | ||
Worlds of If Nov. 139/1: They are getting hopped on murder. | ||
(con. 1940s) Admiral (1968) 314: How come a renegade Catholic like you is so hopped up on the Lord? | ||
Numbers (1968) 11: The hopped-up disc jockeys making bad jokes. | ||
Patrolman 171: He was really getting me hopped up about the idea. | ||
Union Dues (1978) 337: Mark [...] was so hopped and horny with the whole thing. | ||
Breaks 26: We’d be hopped up, leaping, flying, diving, you name it. | ||
Birthday 91: That’s because you’re hopped up all the time. | ||
Hilliker Curse 20: I got hopped up on the Black Dahlia murder case. | ||
Widespread Panic 305: That sick twist Jimmy Dean was all hopped up to play Chessman. |
3. (US) crazy.
‘A Nose for News’ in Goulart (1967) 205: You’re hopped [...] You’re staggering. Forget it. I wouldn’t go in on a plan like that for money. | ||
Tales (1969) 79: Five or six hundred hopped-up woogies tumbled out into Belmont Avenue. | ||
Blood Brothers 151: Butler was jumping around like a hopped-up rooster. | ||
Christine 472: Two fucking million Japs coming at us hopped to the eyeballs. | ||
Destination: Morgue! (2004) 167: It’s a hopped-up heap of hopeless hope. | ‘Little Sleazer & the Mail-Sex Mama’ in||
Sucked In 169: He’s all hopped up [...] Mad as a cut snake. | ||
Widespread Panic 35: The meshugenah Magna Carta of our hopped-up and fucked-up age. |
4. (US) embellished, ‘jazzed up.’.
What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 77: Sammy is an unusual model [...] With a special hopped-up motor. | ||
Men of the Und. 133: With this hopped-up pace have come new criminal tricks. | ||
Early Havoc 228: The show was a sort of hopped-up version of Earl Carroll’s Vanities. |
5. (US) of a car, improved beyond its basic specifications, thus v. hop up.
Devil Thumbs a Ride [film script] Say, this baby really rolls along, is she hopped up? | ||
Rap Sheet 54: The Stutz could run rings around that Studebaker, even though I had it all hopped up. | ||
Hell’s Angels (1967) 165: He kept a hopped-up 1937 Ford with no fenders. | ||
Straw Boss (1979) 211: The hopped-up car was a little difficult to handle. | ||
(con. 1986) Sweet Forever 15: It was a boxy GM, a Monte carlo or the hopped-up version of the Cutlass. | ||
Right As Rain 47: She [...] watched Earl and ray leave the barn and head for their car, a hopped-up Ford. | ||
Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] [A] kid in a hopped-up Civic. | ||
Life During Wartime 98: He unbent the frame, hopped up the engine, and drove it to every drag strip he could find. | ‘Hot Rod Heart’ in
6. in adv. use.
in Sweet Daddy 9: She’s so hopped up happy someone wants her. |
In phrases
totally intoxicated by a drug, esp. opium or heroin .
Coll. Stories (1990) 145: He was hopped to the gills and kept brushing imaginary specks from his clothes. | ‘Strictly Business’ in||
Imabelle 140: They’re hopped to the gills and kill-happy. | ||
Rage in Harlem (1969) 141: [as 1957]. |