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HET UP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does het up mean?
• HET UP (adjective)
The adjective HET UP has 2 senses:
1. made warm or hot ('het' is a dialectal variant of 'heated')
2. worked up emotionally by anger or excitement
Familiarity information: HET UP used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made warm or hot ('het' is a dialectal variant of 'heated')
Synonyms:
heated; heated up; het; het up
Context example:
he was all het up and sweaty
Similar:
hot (used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Worked up emotionally by anger or excitement
Context example:
he was suddenly het up about racing cars
Similar:
emotional (of more than usual emotion)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Context examples
"Well, you needn't get so all-fired het up about it. Judgin' by your actions one'd think you didn't know your own mind."
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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