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

"It's not rational behaviour - I can't explain why we get so het up."

From BBC • Jul. 10, 2021

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

From Slate • Nov. 25, 2018

Mothers and fathers get all het up about their kids succumbing to temptation precisely because we all wrestle with its power.

From The Guardian • Sep. 30, 2017

He was all het up by this time, Sam tells me, and all the old memories came creeping back, and he kept thinking he never was so glad to run across anybody in his life.

From Seven Keys to Baldpate by Biggers, Earl Derr