intensively or excessively stimulated or exaggerated:
an economy hyped-up by arms spending.
Origin
1945-50
Examples from the web for hyped-up
Her hyped-up introductions of each dance come off as earnest encouragement.
In addition to the hyped-up atmosphere, representatives were also kept motivated by the promise of rewards.
hyped-up montages driven by jaunty pop music skid into scenes of corny masculine melodrama.
For hyped-up salesmanship brings clear consequences: customers become even more sceptical, once they find they have been gulled.
Her longest fair jump was only good enough for bronze, so her hyped-up quest for five gold medals ends right there.
Slang definitions & phrases for hyped-up
hyped-up
adjective
False; fake; hoked-up, phony: no hyped-up glamour/ the woman's archly hyped-up language(1940s+)
Excited; overstimulated; hyper: I leave early, hyped-up, impressed, nauseated/ The game gets him ''hyped up,'' and ''releases energy'' in the same way that football does(1938+)