het up

Example Sentences

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So why has the Chanel version gotten people so het up?

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2021

“What’s the good of rushin’? No use in gettin’ all het up an’ sweaty.

From Slate • Nov. 25, 2018

"Richard III has a one-page write-up and if I tweet that picture people get really het up about it," she says.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2015

Barack Obama has been het up about electronic record keeping since the day he was elected.

From Time • Mar. 14, 2013

If we call on him like a delegation, he'll get het up, and be more disagreeable than if we went about this thing quietly.

From The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers by Hastings, Howard L. (Howard Livingston)