pumped up

1. 1.

   tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline

   “we were really pumped up for the race”

   “he was so pumped he couldn't sleep”

   Synonymspumped-uppumpedwired

   Similartense

   colloquialism

Questions about pumped up

What does pumped up mean?

pumped up means "tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline".

What is another word for pumped up?

Close synonyms include pumped-up, pumped, wired. 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 pumped up a common word?

pumped 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.