psych up

1. 1.

   get excited or stimulated

   “The children were all psyched up after the movie”

   Synonymshype up

   Broaderagitate

Questions about psych up

What does psych up mean?

psych up means "get excited or stimulated".

What is another word for psych up?

Close synonyms include hype 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 psych up a common word?

psych 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.