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Wednesday 22 March 2017

het up - English Oxford Living Dictionaries : @OxfordWords

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adjective

informal
  • predicative Angry and agitated.
    ‘her husband is all het up about something’

Origin

Mid 19th century: from dialect het ‘heated, hot’, surviving in Scots and northern English dialect.

Pronunciation

het up

/hɛtˈʌp/