cranked up

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Verb

cranked up

1. simple past and past participle of crank up

Adjective

cranked up (comparative more cranked up, superlative most cranked up)

1. Agitated; worked up.
   • 1984, Ken Warner, Gun Digest, 1985, page 16:

     Now, I mean this turkey was cranked up good. He had been gobbling at the slightest sound of my hen calls earlier.

   • 2009, Nellis Boyer, Hancock House, page 63:

     She thought I'd had too much to drink, which, of course, I had. But now I felt cranked up and wide awake.

   • 2013, Seedy Buckberry, A Windfall Homestead:

     Birdy especially got cranked up about home burial.

   • 2014, Jessica Sims, Wanted: Wild Thing:

     If I was cranked up on caffeine, it was harder to relax and get aroused.