pumped-up

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Adj.1.pumped-up - tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline; "we were really pumped up for the race"; "he was so pumped he couldn't sleep"
pumped, pumped up, wired
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
tense - in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
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This summer alone we've seen Mark Wahlberg and Edward Norton play cat and mouse with a boat, truck, and train full of bullion in the pumped-up remake of The Italian Job, watched Dustin Hoffman and Edward Burns bait and switch each other with a van full of dough in Confidence, and spied on Nick Nolte's efforts to pull one last jewelry heist in The Good Thief.
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Despite the ample supply of new information, however, Harris' story bogs down in a swamp of pumped-up prose and mangled syntax.
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In conception, International With Monument was like a pumped-up version of Nature Morte.
DAN CAMERON ON International With Monument
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