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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Thought to be from electrical arcs created when starting/booting/arcing up an electrical device.

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arc up (third-person singular simple present arcs up, present participle arcing up, simple past and past participle arced up)

  1. (Australia, slang, intransitive) To become upset or angry. [from 20th c.]
    • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 316:
      Tiger went, ‘Ooo! He's arcing up here, Annabelle.’

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