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Pumped up   /pəmpt əp/   Listen
Pumped up

adjective
1.
Tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline.  Synonyms: pumped, pumped-up, wired.  "He was so pumped he couldn't sleep"






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"Pumped up" Quotes from Famous Books



... whack. It struck poor Mama where she was the most prominent, and knocked every bit of breath out of her. With a groan she collapsed, and it took the four daughters all the rest of the evening to get her pumped up again. ...
— Continuous Vaudeville • Will M. Cressy

... I pumped up another shell and drew fine at four hundred. That time his rump quivered for a second as though a great weight had been dropped on it. But he went on with increased speed. Once more I let him have it. That ...
— The River and I • John G. Neihardt

... automatic loading, but it has to be pumped up each time. That's not as hard as it sounds, though, because the pump is made so that two strokes will give it a full air charge. It's about as fast firing as a ...
— Smugglers' Reef • John Blaine



Words linked to "Pumped up" :   wired, colloquialism, pumped-up, tense



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