pepped up

In these grim times, it’s easy to understand the appeal of the glammy, pepped-up jukebox-style musical, whose familiar narrative structures, themes, and tuneful interludes serve as little life rafts atop the dark waters of the turbulent present.

A project meant to drive home California’s role as the technological vanguard of the nation was looking more and more like a pepped-up Amtrak route through the Central Valley.

A project meant to drive home California’s role as the high-tech vanguard of the nation was looking more and more like a pepped-up Amtrak route through the Central Valley.

The next president isn’t going to limp to the finish with a warmed-over, pepped-up version of the past.

He and his colleagues then added the pepped-up diamonds to some gutta percha and shook the result with sound waves to distribute the diamonds evenly.