amped

English

Etymology

Elision of amplified.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æmpt/
• Rhymes: -æmpt

Verb

amped

1. simple past and past participle of amp

Adjective

amped (comparative more amped, superlative most amped)

1. Activated, as with electric power.
   • 1990, Mary Jo Winer, Strategies for Reducing Natural Gas, Electric and Oil Costs, page 324:

     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

   • 2013, S.C. Stephens, Reckless:

     Two guitars were amped and miked, while a third space was empty and waiting for Kellan's guitar.

2. (colloquial) Excited or full of energy, especially to excess.

   Synonyms: amped up, psyched up

   • 1991, Surfing, volume 27, number 1:

     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.

   • 2004, Steve Parish, Joe Layden, Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead:

     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.

   • 2010, Ryan G. Van Cleave, Unplugged: My Journey into the Dark World of Video Game Addiction:

     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.

   • 2011, Ben Marcus, The Skateboard: The Good, the Rad, and the Gnarly, page 233:

     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

Derived terms

• amped up
• biamped
• overamped
• triamped

 

Anagrams

• AMEPD, demap