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hopped up

hopped up adjective: drugged; intoxicated. Also the simple past and past participle of hop up.

Adjective

hopped up (not comparable)

  1. (slang, usually) Drugged; intoxicated.
    • You could see in his eyes that he was hopped up on goofballs.
  2. (slang) Mechanically enhanced for high performance; souped-up.
    • His car featured a hopped up Mercury engine and sported the fender skirts and DeSoto bumpers that were popular on hot rods of the era.2002, Ron Roberson, Middletown Pacemakers: The Story of an Ohio Hot Rod Club, Arcadia Publishing, page 1938

Also used as

hopped up is also the simple past and past participle of hop up.

Questions about hopped up

What does hopped up mean?
Hopped up means drugged; intoxicated.
What part of speech is hopped up?
Hopped up is an adjective.

Words near hopped up in the dictionary

  1. hopped on
  2. hopped on down to
  3. hopped the twig
  4. hopped the wag
  5. hopped to it
  6. hopped up
  7. Hoppenreys
  8. hopper
  9. hopper boy
  10. hopper boys
  11. hopper car

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