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HET UP

• 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.

• HET UP (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Made warm or hot ('het' is a dialectal variant of 'heated')

Synonyms:

heated; heated up; het; het up

Context examples:

a heated swimming pool / wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana / 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

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Meaning:

Worked up emotionally by anger or excitement

Context examples:

was terribly het up over the killing of the eagle / got really het up over the new taxes / 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)

"My Son is my Son 'til he takes him a Wife, my Daughter's my Daughter all her life."
(English proverb)
"Measure twice, cut once."
(Bulgarian proverb)
"Fortune visits only once."
(Armenian proverb)
"The fox can lose his fur but not his cunning."
(Corsican proverb)

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