amped

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of amp

adj

1. 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.”

2. (colloquial)Excited 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.”

   “Hawk ate it, and ate it again and again, and failed four times before regulation time ran out. But Hawk kept going; the crowd was amped to see history made, and Tony was amped to make it”