/æmpt/
OriginElision of amplified.
- form-of, participle, pastsimple past and past participle of amp
- 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 use”
“Two guitars were amped and miked, while a third space was empty and waiting for Kellan's guitar.”
- colloquialExcited 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.”
“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.”
“But whether the guy was fiddling too intently with the XM radio tuner or was simply too amped on NoDoz and cheap cigarettes, speeding along to a New Year's Eve party, he keeps driving.”
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