hopped-up

Example Sentences

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The sampling of funk and glam rock classics momentarily distracts us from the nonsensical staging choices and hopped-up gags, but only for so long.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

It is also lighter, crisper, and easier to drink than the hopped-up IPAs that dominate the other end of American beer culture.

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2023

But the fan wasn’t sure halting the performance was the right move; he worried about how the hopped-up crowd might react.

From Washington Post • Nov. 6, 2021

He hit American pop like a fireball in the mid-1950s, a hopped-up emissary from cultures that mainstream America barely knew, drawing on the sacred and the profane, the spiritual and the carnal.

From New York Times • May 10, 2020

Maybe there would be a place in the asteroids for a hopped-up superman.

From Anything You Can Do ... by Garrett, Randall