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fired up

adjective more fired up · most fired up

  1. colloquial, of a person Very emotional or excited about something (whether positive or negative). Watching the political commentators on cable news channels always gets him fired up.
  2. colloquial, of an engine or other machine Running or switched on; especially in the moments after just starting. Now that all the ship's boilers were fired up, the voyage was well and truly underway.

verb

  1. colloquial, participle, past simple past and past participle of fire up

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@misc{fired_up_2026,
  title = {fired up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fired%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}