het up

het up

adj
angry; excited: too many people are getting het up about money in rugby.
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

het′ up′

(hɛt)
adj.
Slang.
1. indignant; irate; upset.
2. enthusiastic.
[1920–25; het, archaic or dial. past participle of heat + up]
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.het up - made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated'); "a heated swimming pool"; "wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana"; "he was all het up and sweaty"
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; "hot stove"; "hot water"; "a hot August day"; "a hot stuffy room"; "she's hot and tired"; "a hot forehead"
2.het up - worked up emotionally by anger or excitement; "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"
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
emotional - of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional"
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Translations
eccitato

het up

[ˌhetˈʌp] ADJ to get het upacalorarse, emocionarse (about, over por) don't get so het up!¡tranquilízate!, ¡no te sulfures!
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

het up

[ˌhɛtˈʌp] adjagité(e), excité(e)
to get het up → s'énerver
to get het up about sth → se mettre dans tous ses états à propos de qch
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

het up

adj (Brit inf) → aufgeregt; to get het up about/over somethingsich über etw (acc)/wegen einer Sache (gen)aufregen
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

het up

[ˌhɛtˈʌp] adj (fam) → agitato/a
to get het up → scaldarsi
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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