Definition of "stoked" [stoked]

• Slang Exhilarated or excited. (adjective)
• Slang Being or feeling high or intoxicated, especially from a drug. (adjective)

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• "When Jordan Weisman and St. Martin's Press approached me about writing Personal Effects: Dark Art, I was stoked from the start."
• "Ever since the New York Yankees Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig benched himself in 1939, never to return to the game, the ailment that now bears his name has stoked dread in the American imagination."
• "To my great delight -- to the point of using the word "stoked," which struck kasey as being way out of character for me, which it is -- some of the recently planted pots are producing sprouts."