Definitions
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hipped , hppish.
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- adjective dated Affected with
hypochondria .
Etymologies
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Examples
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You know this is all just hypped up pretense to make Obama look poorly in anyway possible.
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"A few Councilmen are going to drop dead before they can be narco-hypped," Dalla prophesied over the rim of her glass.
Time Crime H. Beam Piper 1934
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He determined to devote himself to their amusement during the remainder of the day, for he had really lost himself, and felt that he had been away too long on a dull Sunday, when people were apt to get hypped if not well amused.
Ruth Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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( "You mean they've got you hypped right now?") "Of course, or I couldn't talk to you at all.
Time For The Stars Heinlein, Robert A. 1956
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_] That was her mood last June, when she was hypped and discontented.
The Big Drum A Comedy in Four Acts Arthur Wing Pinero 1894
minerva commented on the word hypped
Hypochondria, low spirits, depression, melancholy.
December 11, 2007
minerva commented on the word hypped
Melancholy for what?... I thought thou hadst been more of a man; thou that are not afraid of an acute death, a sword's point, to be so plaguily hypped at the consequences of a chronical one?
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
December 11, 2007
minerva commented on the word hypped
Caesar never knew what it meant to be hypped, I will call it, till he came to be what Pompey was; that is to say, till he arrived at the height of his ambition...
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
December 18, 2007
Gammerstang commented on the word hypped
(adjective) - Made melancholy; hyppish, affected with hypochondria. --Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c. 1850
January 27, 2018