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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated'); "a heated swimming pool"; "wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana"; "he was all het up and sweaty" [syn: heated, heated up, het, het up]
2: worked up emotionally by anger or excitement; "was terribly het up over the killing of the eagle"; "got really het up over the new taxes"; "he was suddenly het up about racing cars"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: het, dialect past of heat Date: 1909 highly excited ; upset

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. colloq. excited, overwrought. Etymology: het dial. past part. of HEAT

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you get het up about something, you get very excited, angry, or anxious about it. (INFORMAL) = worked up ADJ: v-link ADJ, oft ADJ about n