amped

Adjective

amped (comparative more amped, superlative most amped)

1. Activated, as with electric power.
   • 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 use1990, Mary Jo Winer, Strategies for Reducing Natural Gas, Electric and Oil Costs, page 324
   • Two guitars were amped and miked, while a third space was empty and waiting for Kellan's guitar.2013, S.C. Stephens, Reckless
2. (colloquial) Excited or full of energy, especially to excess.
   • 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.1991, Surfing, volume 27, number 1
   • 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.2004, Steve Parish, Joe Layden, Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead

   Synonyms:

   amped up, psyched up