hype up

1. 1.

   get excited or stimulated

   “The children were all psyched up after the movie”

   Synonymspsych up

   Broaderagitate

Questions about hype up

What does hype up mean?

hype up means "get excited or stimulated".

What is another word for hype up?

Close synonyms include psych up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hype up a common word?

hype up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.