"amped" meaning in English

See amped in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /æmpt/ Forms: more amped [comparative], most amped [superlative]
Rhymes: -æmpt Etymology: Elision of amplified. Head templates: {{en-adj}} amped (comparative more amped, superlative most amped)
  1. Activated, as with electric power.
    Sense id: en-amped-en-adj-luXZscXM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 52 3 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 49 47 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 52 46 2
  2. (colloquial) Excited or full of energy, especially to excess. Tags: colloquial Synonyms: amped up, psyched up
    Sense id: en-amped-en-adj-y6HST~tv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 52 3 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 49 47 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 52 46 2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: amped up, biamped, overamped, triamped

Verb

IPA: /æmpt/
Rhymes: -æmpt Etymology: Elision of amplified. Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} amped
  1. simple past and past participle of amp Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: amp
    Sense id: en-amped-en-verb-LbAdb2Z9
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      "ipa": "/æmpt/"
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  "word": "amped"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "amped up"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "biamped"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "overamped"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "triamped"
    }
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      "form": "more amped",
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        "comparative"
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    },
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      "form": "most amped",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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        {
          "ref": "1990, Mary Jo Winer, Strategies for Reducing Natural Gas, Electric and Oil Costs, page 324:",
          "text": "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",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "2013, S.C. Stephens, Reckless:",
          "text": "Two guitars were amped and miked, while a third space was empty and waiting for Kellan's guitar.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Activated, as with electric power."
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1991, Surfing, volume 27, number 1:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Steve Parish, Joe Layden, Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Ryan G. Van Cleave, Unplugged: My Journey into the Dark World of Video Game Addiction:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Ben Marcus, The Skateboard: The Good, the Rad, and the Gnarly, page 233:",
          "text": "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",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Excited or full of energy, especially to excess."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) Excited or full of energy, especially to excess."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "amped up"
        },
        {
          "word": "psyched up"
        }
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    {
      "word": "amped up"
    },
    {
      "word": "biamped"
    },
    {
      "word": "overamped"
    },
    {
      "word": "triamped"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Elision of amplified.",
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      "form": "more amped",
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        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most amped",
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        "superlative"
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        {
          "ref": "1990, Mary Jo Winer, Strategies for Reducing Natural Gas, Electric and Oil Costs, page 324:",
          "text": "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",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, S.C. Stephens, Reckless:",
          "text": "Two guitars were amped and miked, while a third space was empty and waiting for Kellan's guitar.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Activated, as with electric power."
      ],
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          "activated"
        ]
      ]
    },
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        "English colloquialisms",
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        {
          "ref": "1991, Surfing, volume 27, number 1:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Steve Parish, Joe Layden, Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Ryan G. Van Cleave, Unplugged: My Journey into the Dark World of Video Game Addiction:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Ben Marcus, The Skateboard: The Good, the Rad, and the Gnarly, page 233:",
          "text": "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",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Excited or full of energy, especially to excess."
      ],
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        "(colloquial) Excited or full of energy, especially to excess."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "amped up"
        },
        {
          "word": "psyched up"
        }
      ],
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      "ipa": "/æmpt/"
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