informal
: filled with energetic excitement and enthusiasm : amped-up
The Napa party … featured a larger and more amped crowd.Maryann Worobiec
Carson Palmer has seen his share of coaches come and go in his three seasons at USC. So he didn't get too amped when the Trojans' new head coach, Pete Carroll, named an offensive coordinator.Bruce Feldman

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The 2024 first-round pick blamed the weather, not nerves or feeling too amped up, on an inaccurate pass targeting DeMario Douglas to open the game. Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025 And Adebayo was so amped up because she’s never done that before. Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025 So people don’t ever seem too amped up around here. Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025 Republicans managed to claw back $21 billion of that additional funding during appropriations battles and have frozen an additional $20.2 billion, effectively reducing the amped enforcement budget by more than 90 percent. Tobias Burns, The Hill, 18 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for amped

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First Known Use

1981, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of amped was in 1981

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“Amped.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amped. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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