hopped-up

Example Sentences

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A rancher tries to stop king-size, hopped-up carnivorous rabbits as they roar through Arizona.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2020

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

But this time, instead of hopped-up teenagers hurling moralistic condemnation at mediocre TV shows, it was middle-aged men condemning a 220-page financial statement on Twitter, in real time.

From The Guardian • Dec. 20, 2019

And the winner of the Lose Cannon: To "It Might As Well Be Spring" We're as hopped-up as a hive of harried hornets, We're searching for oppressors we can sting.

From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2019

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

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