hopped-up
Example Sentences
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The song so nice it charted twice — first in its mid-’60s studio incarnation then again as a hopped-up live cut from “Hot August Night.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
A hopped-up yet grindingly slow adaptation of Dickens’s ubiquitous holiday classic, the movie incorporates old Leslie Bricusse songs from his “Scrooge” musical, as well as three new numbers.
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2022
He quickly gathered a considerable audience, reportedly around 600,000 listeners, providing a startlingly informal alternative to the hopped-up antics of Top 40 DJs and the rapid-fire flow of headlines on all-news radio.
From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2022
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
Maybe there would be a place in the asteroids for a hopped-up superman.
From Anything You Can Do ... by Garrett, Randall
