amped en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /æmpt/
Etymology
Elision of amplified.
Meanings
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Activated, as with electric power.
Two guitars were amped and miked, while a third space was empty and waiting for Kellan's guitar.
2013, S.C. Stephens, Reckless:All four motors should be amped to check the loading on the motors before new motors are installed. The amp checks might reveal that a smaller size motor could be use
1990, Mary Jo Winer, Strategies for Reducing Natural Gas, Electric and Oil Costs, page 324:
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(colloquial) Excited or full of energy, especially to excess.
But I didn't care. I was twenty-two years old. I was invincible. “Keep it going,” Sparky said at one point. He was too amped to sleep, so he turned on the radio and cranked the volume.
2004, Steve Parish, Joe Layden, Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead:Hawk ate it, and ate it again and again, and failed four times before regulation time ran out. But Hawk kept going; the crowd was amped to see history made, and Tony was amped to make it
2011, Ben Marcus, The Skateboard: The Good, the Rad, and the Gnarly, page 233:If I listen to fast music before I go out in a heat, it gets me too amped out and then I can't concentrate on my surfing.
1991, Surfing, volume 27, number 1:But whether the guy was fiddling too intently with the XM radio tuner or was simply too amped on NoDoz and cheap cigarettes, speeding along to a New Year's Eve party, he keeps driving.
2010, Ryan G. Van Cleave, Unplugged: My Journey into the Dark World of Video Game Addiction:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more amped | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most amped | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
biamped · triamped · amped up · overamped